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TIL of the Republic XF-84H, the loudest aircraft ever built. Its engine was audible from 22 miles away, and Edwards Air Force Base was worried the noise would break windows in the control tower. The airplane was not popular at Edwards, and is rumored to have caused several miscarriages.

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Kml9 TIL the couple kissing on the bridge as Tinkerbell flies Peter Pan away from London to Neverland in “Hook” are Carrie Fisher and George Lucas.
Oo7Ka Today I learned Norman Rockwell painted a depiction of the June 21, 1964 murders of the three young civil rights workers, Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman in Philadelphia, Mississippi, for the magazine Look.
KOQ9w TIL about bacha posh, a practice in Afghanistan where a family with no sons will dress one of their daughters as a boy so that someone can run errands, work, escort the other sisters, etc. They cut their hair short and answer to male names; when they reach puberty, they revert to being female.
nWN4P TIL The Golden Raspberry Awards has made retractions on two occasions. Bruce Willis had his Raspberry category retracted once it was discovered he was suffering from aphasia. Shelley Duvall's nomination was retracted because of Kubrick's mistreatment on The Shining.
gMW18 TIL the chemical Formamide has been proposed as an alternative to water that could support life with alternative biochemistries to that currently found on Earth. It can be formed with hydrogen cyanide and water, has a large dipole moment, and dissolves almost everything that dissolves in water.