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TIL: Americans can fly to the moon faster than to New Zealand

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loLjN TIL that a “touron” is park ranger slang for a tourist who behaves like a moron when entering a national park.
d89w8 TIL the filming of Hardcore Henry was so intense that it caused severe neck pain, and tooth loss for 2 actors played the protagonist. It is also the first full POV action movie, 96 minutes of Hardcore Henry are all in first person
M6VB TIL that the FCC considers 4mbps to be fast enough for hd online streaming
awX0 TIL when Patrick Stewart went bald at 19, “I believed that no woman would ever be interested in me again. I prepared myself for the reality that a large part of my life was over.”
gMgNA TIL of the SS Richard Montgomery: a US WWII ship carrying munitions, grounded 2.4km from Sheerness, UK in 1944, and broken in two by the weight of the bombs on board. An estimated 1,400 tonnes of explosives remain on board the ship. It is monitored constantly & protected by a 500m exclusion zone.