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TIL the land of Sheba (as in the place whose Queen was in both the Bible and the Quran) is now modern day Ethiopia.

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4Xx7R TIL: Sustained supersonic speeds can damage the F-35's stealth coating and antennas embedded in the tail. Instead of fixing the issue, the Pentagon restricted how long the F-35 can fly at supersonic speeds.
D9MV TIL Samuel L. Jackson once held Martin Luther King. SR hostage at Morehouse College. He was convicted of felony Unlawful Confinement.
grlk4 TIL that the oft-repeated "fact" of Anthony Hopkins having only 16 minutes of screentime in The Silence Of The Lambs is false. He is also not the shortest performance to win a Lead Acting Oscar.
7rR5X TIL since 1953, the Italian bank, Credito Emiliano, has accepted giant wheels of Parmigiano Reggiano cheese as collateral for business loans.
X0nXQ TIL: That there are over 219 million synthetic chemicals, 5000 of which are classified as high-production-volume chemicals