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TIL a Boeing 747 uses ~4 litres (~1 gallon) of fuel every second

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Pn4G TIL In 1919 Michael Keogh stopped an angry mob of 200 men (some with bayonets) from killing two right winged political agents they were beating up. In 1930 at a Nuremburg rally, Keogh recognized one of the agents he had saved. It was Adolf Hitler.
v1krK TIL that there were 17 natural nuclear reactors in Gabon.
p8AKG TIL A South African veterinarian employed by the Apartheid government was engineering for them a virus that selectively sterilized only black people.
gM1VL TIL internet speed is measured in Megabits, not Megabytes. Bytes hold 8 bits, thus making an internet speed of 100megabits/s actually only 12.5 megabytes/s.
4ko8o TIL that the Iraqi transport minister caused controversy during an inauguration of an airport by claiming that the world's first airport was built 7,000 years ago in Iraq by ancient Sumerians