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TIL The CIA and Skunkworks figured out a way to cloak the SR71's massive engines from radar

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a87VN TIL that Elizabeth Holmes' father was an executive at Enron, a corporation which famously collapsed after it was discovered that they had continually and egregiously defrauded both their own investors and the federal government.
0dJn1 TIL it was Ben Sliney’s first day as FAA’s National Operations Manager when he ordered the National Ground Stop on Sept. 11, 2001.
w7DY TIL The quote ‘curiosity killed the cat’ actually has a second part where 'satisfaction brought it back’, meaning the full quote is 'Curiosity killed the cat but satisfaction brought it back’.
0wErj TIL a million people live in Sakha, the coldest inhabited place on Earth, where the temperature can drop as low as -90 degrees
Lk0N9 TIL that a study in 2008 claimed that consumer information regarding health would be ineffective "if content exceeds a 7th-grade reading level, which is the average American reading level identified by the United States Department of Health and Human Services."