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TIL that the Concorde used more fuel taxiing to the end of the runway than a Boeing 737 needs to fly all the way from London to Amsterdam

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VMplk TIL there are companies with fake first class plane, yacht, sports car interiors etc so you can fake an upscale lifestyle for your social media.
WB7o TIL that while high profile scientists such as Carl Sagan have advocated the transmission of messages into outer space, Stephen Hawking has warned against it, suggesting that aliens might simply raid Earth for its resources and then move on.
0wZ1j TIL of Ines Ramirez, who was forty years old, far from medical assistance and struggling during a difficult birth. She cut into her own abdomen with a kitchen knife and delivered her son, becoming the only person to have performed a Caesarean section on herself.
1avy4 TIL That the most complicated IED ever seen by the FBI was planted by a disgruntled former Luftwaffe pilot and Gulag prisoner after he lost all his money gambling in a casino. The FBI failed in defusing the bomb and the casino where it was planted was destroyed.
BgW7K TIL that while Bram Stoker’s Dracula character was loosely based on Vlad Tepes the Impaler, his appearance and personality were drawn from the actor Henry Irving, an imposing egoist with a strong aquiline nose, whom Stoker managed while writing the book.