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TIL the fastest speed a human being has ever attained was when Apollo 10 returned from the moon at 24,791 mph (36,360 feet/second). This is slightly faster than going down to the Marianas Trench in one second.

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VMMR4 TIL of Mary Sweeney who was arrested more than 100 times in Wisconsin in the 1890s for breaking windows while using cocaine.
nW5e7 TIL when future US President James Buchanan was a Senator, he bought his whiskey weekly in 10-gallon quantities from well-known whiskey merchant Jacob Baer in Washington, D.C. Buchanan considered Baer's whiskey to be "finer than the best Monongahela."
OGJO1 TIL How mindfulness could help reduce certain types of dissociation, especially normative, not directly but through improvements in attentional concentration and emotional acceptance.
wL9VE TIL that bed bugs were practically driven to extinction in the United States up until the nineties. We still aren't sure exactly how they managed to come back, but they are sadly becoming much more common every year.
lo5Va TIL that Dolly Parton's family was so poor that the doctor who brought her into the world was paid with a sack of cornmeal