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TIL just while taxiing to take-off, the Concorde burned more fuel than a 737 flying from London to Amsterdam

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rXJM TIL 47 States have more strict regulations for barbers than for tax preparers.
BRwW TIL that the nursery rhyme “Mary Mary Quite Contrary” is about Mary Tudor, and that the “silver bells and cockle shells” are allusions to instruments of torture.
XPYQ TIL Einstein was an outspoken socialist and believed socialism was the natural course society would take.
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