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TIL In 2014, highly trained snipers nearly knocked out power to Silicon Valley and were never caught.

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R76ml TIL space shuttles' main engines burn cryogenic propellant at ~3500K (hot enough to boil iron). They are fueled by cooling channels built-in to the nozzles themselves, which simultaneously cool the nozzle at a steady state while fueling the engine.
GAKM5 TIL Irene Triplett, the last person to receive benefits from the 1861-5 US Civil War, died in 2020
9w5gm TIL William Howard Taft tried to recreate the success of Theodore Roosevelt's teddy bear with his own "Billy Possum"
jBME TIL Researchers found that bees which had been given a dose of cocaine threw themselves into unusually energetic dance routines, felt compelled to “talk” to their nest mates - and even went “cold turkey” when the drugs ran out.
N7Eg8 TIL in 2003 when Amanda Berry disappeared, "psychic" Sylvia Browne told Berry's mother that she was dead on the Montel Williams show. Berry's mother then died in 2006. In 2013 Berry was found alive after being held captive in Ariel Castro's basement for 10 years.