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TIL Nasa hires a chief sniffer to smell everything that sends to space...

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x6dB TIL that in 2000 the major motorcycle companies of the world reached a gentlemen’s agreement to end a speed war of one-upmanship to try make the worlds fastest production bike, as they feared speeds would escalate to extremely dangerous speeds before it would end. A limit of 300km/h was agreed
rpvW TIL that the alternative history novel “The Man in the High Castle” features a “novel within a novel”. While the actual book is about Nazis winning WWII, the in-book novel is about an alternate universe in which the Nazis lose the war.
Z8D4R TIL that in 1974, after the premiere of The Godfather Part II, the gangster Meyer Lansky called Lee Strasberg, who played Hyman Roth (who was based off Lansky) to congratulate him on a job well done
eJ8E TIL that the Australian rower Bobby Pearce once stopped during a rowing race in the 1928 Olympics to allow a family of ducks pass, and still won out of eight competitors in that round
xEG5 TIL two Bangladeshi newspapers published an article using the Onion as a source. “We didn’t know the Onion was not a real news site.”