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TIL the SR-71 blackbird plane designed in 1960’s is still the fastest plane on Earth

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8ex7P TIL Hitler's book Mein Kampf has been turned into a manga
ybdw TIL that the German word, Schnapsidee (liquor-idea) is a term for a plan one hatches when drunk, or a plan so stupid that you think it must have come from a drunken mind
vy9r TIL That Americans speak English totally different from each other
deAr TIL that the most accepted theory on how AIDS was first transmitted to humans is that a Bantu hunter, while processing a newly killed, and infected, chimpanzee, got cut himself and got the animal’s blood into his body.
BrlKW TIL when you imagine something, you are using the same brain processes as when you remember something, which is why it's so easy to misremember things, or why some people confuse what they've imagined with what is real.