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TIL that when a Concorde crashed in 2000, it came within 30 feet of hitting a plane carrying the French president

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n1GG TIL Maurice Ward invented a material called Starlite, which could withstand temperatures over 10,000 C. Ward was so protective of his formula that he took it to his grave in 2011 and scientists still do not know the composition of the material.
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