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TIL that the fastest temperature rise was 27 °C, 49°F in 2 minutes, the fastest temperature drop was 27.2°C, 49°F in 15 minutes, and both were in South Dakota

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7r78O TIL a fighter jet landed itself, undamaged, in a field in Montana after the pilot ejected when the plane went into a flat spin during training. The plane righted itself and flew away on its own. A farmer found the plane sitting perfectly in a field hours later with the engines still running.
QJQJM TIL 7 Up was laced with Lithium -a mood stabilizer, until 1948.
oBknR TIL felines who purr cannot roar. It comes down to a bone called the hyoid which is not completely ossified in roaring cats while it is in domestic cats.
E1xMW TIL in 1933 Stalin criminalized male homosexuality but left lesbianism untouched
Wkrbo TIL the last mass execution in the US happened during WW2 when 7 German POWs in Arizona were executed for murdering a fellow POW. The perpetrators knew that the victim had divulged secrets to the US so they murdered him the day he arrived at the camp.