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TIL The Pentagon’s FY2025 budget request for hypersonic research was $6.9 billion

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8akrV TIL Dr. Seuss' widow disliked 'The Cat in the Hat' (2003) so much that she banned Hollywood from making Live Action movies of Seuss characters.
d8lpr TIL that there is a nonprofit dedicated to fighting for the reconstruction of the old Penn Station, as it was from 1910-1963.
R7Pow TIL Botanist Robert Brown was not the first who discovered Brownian motion (It was Jan Ingenhousz) and Einstien was not the first who described it. But Einstien used Brownian motion to calculate the size of an atom.
oRdA7 TIL about Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat who helped thousands of Jews flee Europe during WW2 by issuing transit visas to them so that they could travel through Japanese territory, risking his career and the lives of his family.
9KK6 TIL Most alarms and sirens fall into the frequency range 1-3 kHz where the human hearing is the most sensitive, but this frequency range is also a black spot in our sound location abilities.