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TIL that January 16th is national do nothing day in the US

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grZKL TIL about Ken Warby, the fastest man on water. He set the speed record in his homemade, wood boat in 1978 at 317.6mph (551.1 km/h), a record that still stands today.
69pGX TIL The speed of quantum entanglement has been measured for the first time but it's too fast for humans to understand
brP4 TIL The U.S.S. Enterprise had a six-lane bowling alley on board.
ggRb TIL That in 1959 two pilots managed to keep a plane airborne for 64 days.
8amKL TIL In 1953, the newspaper Liberation published a death-bed confession by a Parisian roofer that he had murdered Zola by blocking the chimney of his house