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TIL that before becoming the mayor of Flavortown, Guy Fieri was a TV pitchman for car mufflers

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bRW7 TIL that the SR-71 “Blackbird” was so fast that a standard evasive maneuver in case it detected a SAM missile was simply to outfly the said missile. Also, out of the 12 losses, none of them were from enemy fire, but from accidents.
e0Or4 TIL the Delaware Aqueduct, which provides half of New York City's fresh water, has been leaking up to 35 million gallons of water per day since at least the 1990s.
j6rvj TIL: The Berklee School of Music was named after the founders son: Lee Elliot Berk.
8e7n4 TIL that scientists discovered a species of virus that infects a bacteria found on the surface sediment of the Mariana Trench at 8,900m
Bg4mr TIL shooting stars (meteors) can often times be as small as a grain of sand