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TIL - An sr71 Blackbird once flew from LA to Washington DC in 64 minutes. Average speed of the flight: 2145mph.

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0jQA TIL Japan is the vending machine capital of the world and that machines can dispense free supplies in the event of disasters
JYYpm TIL Kim Peek (Rain Man) was able to split his vision so that each eye reads its corresponding page, allowing him to read both pages at once.
Avmn TIL Kurt Russell was the civilian pilot who witnessed the infamous mass UFO sighting in Phoenix Arizona in 1997 (AKA the “Phoenix Lights”)
wLgKY TIL that the Free French forces that liberated Paris in WW2 were pre-selected to be completely white, despite colored soldiers making up a majority of the Free French forces. Both the US and UK demanded their exclusion from the liberation.
P190J TIL that LionAir of Indonesia neglected maintenance of their Boeing 737MAX’s sensors for more than a week prior to the accident. The engineer responsible lied to investigators and forged documents about the aircraft’s maintenance history.