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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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NlO8 TIL that Costa Rica plans to shut down its zoos and release some animals in captivity and eventually do away with public zoos altogether
l7ZZB TIL that when reconstructing the Khufu Ship, a funery boat buried next to the Great Pyramid, Ahmed Youssef Moustafa spent years researching ancient egyptian boat building from reliefs in tomb walls, modern wooden boating techniques and model boats found in egyptian tombs.
wLm5Y TIL the winner of the discuss throw in the first modern Olympics had never seen a proper discuss until he arrived in Athens. The version he commissioned to train with was 25 pounds heavier than the competition model because he based it solely on images from an ancient vase.
mAwo TIL That the US considered dyeing Mt. Fuji black in WWII as pyschological warfare against the Japanese
xVdRk TIL the reason public trams died out in American cities is because they were forced to subsidize infrastructure for cars and allow them to use tram-lines as roads thereby slowing down all rail networks, making them uncompetitive.