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TIL the shape of the first supersonic airplane, the Bell X-1, was based on the Browning .50 caliber machine gun bullet, which was known to be stable in supersonic flight.

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vPN54 TIL the Ancient Greek Religion continued to be practiced until the late 9th Century AD. The Maniot people were not fully Christianized until the reign of Basil I (867-886). By this time Islam had already been in existence for two centuries and Christianity had begun to split into multiple doctrines.
bO7Z TIL that Rajiv Surendra, the rapping mathlete from Mean Girls, is now an incredibly sought-after calligrapher
DRbD TIL that the “Cool S”, that everyone remembers drawing back in junior high, has no clear origin and has spread across the globe since the 1980s.
JR6v TIL that America’s Most Wanted once caught a fugitive when the employees at a café gathered to watch a segment about a murdered colleague, then realised that the child molester from another segment of the same episode was in the kitchen as the replacement for the murdered man.
78eLX TIL Due to atmospheric anomalies, during WWII a farmhouse in Rhode Island was able to intercept enemy radio transmissions from around the world | Even German tank-to-tank communications in North Africa