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TIL the Aurora is taller than 250 Burj Khalifas

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xVAPk TIL on 1955, after parishioners barred the Rev. Gerald Lewis, an African American priest, from celebrating Mass at St. Cecilia’s Chapel (Louisiana), Archbishop Joseph Rummel put this church under interdict, banning Masses and other sacraments from being celebrated
ElLW TIL In the 1950s, full size B-47 nuclear bombers would do a partial backflip called an “Immelman maneuver” and fling their nuclear weapons in a parabolic arc towards the target . This was so they would not be consumed by the 40,000 foot tall fireball from their own weapons.
KjyR TIL that the smallest living bird is nary larger than a bee and weighs less than a single US penny
8eNRb TIL Nintendo doesn't make their games completely in house and that they keep refusing to say who makes the game until the end credits.
yaxV TIL that since it was discovered 170 years ago, Neptune has completed just 1.04 orbits of the sun.