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TIL Sir Edmund Hillary was the first person to drive overland to the South Pole

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grZlb TIL that boxing trainer Eddie Futch trained four boxers (including Joe Fraizer), who all defeated Muhammad Ali.
yVJEV TIL Lockheeds “Rosetta Stone” breakthrough on stealth came from a math equation - courtesy of the Soviet academic Pyotr Ufimtsev who published his equation. The Soviets were not even working on stealth tech at the time.
x6KRg TIL of the de Mailly-Nesle Sisters, 4 out of 5 of whom were Mistresses to King Louis XV of France
P1QOG TIL that American athlete Florence Griffith Joyner is the fastest woman ever recorded. The record is still standing after 35 years. She passed away at the age of 38.
ADV7g TIL British Airways used to have a fleet of Chinook Helicopters. One was involved in Europe's most deadly helicopter crash in 1986.