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TIL The C-130 is the longest continuously produced military aircraft, having achieved 70 years of production in 2024

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GA9V5 TIL the oldest known crocodile, "Mr. Freshie," lived to be an estimated 140 years old after being captured and rehabilitated by Steve Irwin and his team at the Australia Zoo
mxKWx TIL that Christopher Columbus ordered locals to give him gold and those who didn't got their hands chopped off
V0JZ TIL a jury of 6 whites and 6 blacks ruled in 1999 that Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated as a result of a conspiracy, most likely by the police and CIA, and covered up by the FBI.
VBwAk TIL From 1812-1814, Joseph Fraunhofer studied the spectrum of solar light passing through a thin slit and recorded 500 dark lines. Newton missed seeing dark lines in 1666 because he shone light from the whole solar disk through a circular hole into his prisms
nWEMG TIL that ancient people believed that there was a type of Amber (Lyngurium) made of petrified cat urine