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TIL: That a worm can travel up to 73 meters per hour

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xVe65 TIL When Princess Diana went to Disneyland she made her sons Harry and William wait in line just like everyone else.
NXM8M TIL in 1992, John Travolta was flying his Gulfstream jet with his wife and child onboard when both generators failed and he lost power to the cockpit and radio. Using only a flashlight and compass, he had to navigate to Washington D.C. and land at higher than normal speed without the use of flaps.
9PyX TIL Mary Ball Washington was terrified of lightning because while she was pregnant with George, a bolt of lightning traveled down her chimney. It shocked her and killed a dinner guest.
D1bpY TIL that in China 209 BC two generals were going to be late which was punishable by death. They realized that the punish for rebellion was the same as the one for being late, so they decided to rebel and created an uprising.
nKw9 TIL a term for gay used to be “Friend of Dorothy”. In the 80s , the Navy believed that there actually was some woman named Dorothy at the center of a massive ring of homosexual military personnel, so they launched an enormous and futile hunt for the elusive “Dorothy”.