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TIL that NASA's Parker Solar Probe is the fastest object ever built. It is estimated to reach a top speed of 191 km/s (430,000 mph) in 2025, 0.064% the speed of light.

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R7Lp8 TIL that Scranton, Pennsylvania is known as “The Electric City” because in the 1880s, it was one of the first cities in America to have both electric lights as well as electric streetcars.
JY9KB TIL a US destroyer fired a torpedo at the battleship carrying the POTUS and the Secretary Of State during WWII
GKyJ TIL Brazil and France seriously considered going to war on whether lobsters swam or crawled
loA5G TIL It's believed that the plane crash that killed John Denver on Oct 12 1997 was due in part to him running out of fuel during flight, being unable to see his fuel gauge, and a design flaw in accessing his reserve fuel tank switch.
5MpQ TIL that Pope Benedict IX was the only Pope in the history to have served 3 Papal terms.. And the only Pope to have sold Papacy… and the First Pope said to have been primarily homosexual who held orgies in the Lateran palace