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TIL that members of congress receive access to classified intelligence information without going through a background check – and many of them wouldn’t pass it if they did.

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4mrg TIL That the B-58 Hustler bomber did not have ejection seats, instead they had ejection capsules that would enclose the pilot into an egg-shaped capsule to allow a safer ejection at speeds up to Mach 2 and altitudes higher than 35,000 feet. Pilots with size 12 or higher shoes could lose their toes
grmmb TIL that after South Korea beat Germany at the FIFA World Cup 2018, ensuring Mexico’s place in the knockout, hundreds of Mexican fans descended on the South Korean embassy in Mexico City to celebrate
dbvZ TIL that a man named Armand Hammer coincidentally ended up on the board of directors for Arm & Hammer
9Ymbm TIL about Operation Pluto, an operation to lay submarine oil pipelines under the English Channel in support of the Allied invasion of Normandy during WWII. The two pipelines, "Bambi" and "Dumbo", carried 180 million imperial gallons of petrol to the Allied Expeditionary Force in North West Europe.
8XKK TIL Einstein once taught physics at a Historically Black College/University in Pennsylvania because he was passionately anti-racist