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TIL that SR71A "start carts" exhausted USA's junkyards of 400 cubic inch Buick V8 engines

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YpB4d TIL Sierra Leone is one of the worlds most religiously tolerant nations, they are celebrating both christian and Muslim holidays, vote for candidates with no regard for their religious alignment. Christian and Muslim leaders meet in a Inter-Religious Council to promote understanding and tolerance.
9wPKB TIL that censors in Tsarist Russia did not censor Das Kapital upon its publication because they believed that "very few people in Russia will read it, and even fewer will understand it."
QNWbL TIL In 1981, two walkways in a Hyatt Regency hotel collapsed during a party, killing 114 and injuring 216.
nyRP TIL That modern tortoises’ ancestors moved out of the sea (fish to land reptiles), then back to the sea (early turtles), then back to the land again as tortoises.
X0eZj TIL In 1980, a 30 year old man ate the entirety of a small Cessna aircraft, consumed over the course of 2 years