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TIL Airlines all over the world are flying 10% slower than they did in 1960 to save on fuel costs

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Gyr7 TIL that Iceland has the oldest existing parliamentary system in the world. It is over 1000 years old.
vgyL TIL American pediatrician Saul Krugman deliberately infected thousands of mentally disabled children with Hepatitis B between 1950-1972 to further his research in vaccinology. He was made president of the American Pediatric Society in 1972.
KDxJ TIL that there is a hanging display in Chicago of 58,226 dog tags of every American soldier killed in Vietnam.
YbAW TIL Millennium Challenge was a major war game exercise conducted by the US military in 2002. The combatants were the US, referred to as “Blue”, and an unknown adversary know as “Red”. After Red’s commander defeated Blue Team using asymmetric warfare, the game was reset and rigged so Blue would win.
kj47 TIL that Joseph Bonaparte (Napoleon’s brother) lived in New Jersey after having been King of Spain, Sicily, and Naples. He lived off selling his jewelry and eventually moved back to Europe where he died and was buried near his brother.