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TIL former Telstra CEO Solomon Trujillo, of Hispanic descent, told the BBC that he found Australia to be racist, backward and like “stepping back in time”. The Prime Minister’s response was “adios”

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1lG7 TIL that 2 days before Christmas 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson paid a visit to Pope Paul VI where they exchanged unique gifts. While LBJ received a stunning 15th century painting from Pope Paul VI, the pope himself received a foot high, bronze bust of Johnson’s head.
e0x9D TIL Rod Stirling wrote the screenplay for Planet Of The Apes. The twist ending came from a woman he met at a party who pitched him the "it was earth all along" plot as a Twilight Zone episode. He paid her $500 for the idea.
OG9Oa TIL the concorde used fuel pumps and multiple fuel tanks to move its fuel around mid-flight to trim its center-of-mass to help maintain stability as it passed supersonic speeds.
69eKm TIL that Marvel Comics founder Martin Goodman and his wife had tickets on the Hindenburg when returning from their honeymoon in Europe in 1937, but were unable to secure seats together, so they took alternative transportation instead, avoiding the Hindenburg disaster
KOYVJ TIL Nvidia is developing self-driving car systems