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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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Bgrak TIL that Aintree Racecourse in Liverpool, home of the Grand National, has a motor racing circuit inside it which has hosted the F1 British Grand Prix five times
4kDow TIL the movie Big Trouble was set to come out on 9/21/2001 and was a comedy movie about smuggling a nuke onto a plane but the movie was postponed til April the next year and the promotion campaign was toned down almost to the point of abandonment. The movie later bombed at the box office.
gMM17 TIL the average-sized apple has a weight force of approximately 1 Newton.
wLr7Y TIL That Former NHL Player Jaromir Jagr is Still Playing Hockey at the Age of 47
J1JXj TIL that the Hong Kong Jockey Club, which runs horse races in Hong Kong, is the city's biggest single taxpayer, having paid $28.6 billion in 2022, equal to $3,800 for every man, woman, and child in the region.