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TIL about the Supersonic Oblique Wing design

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eprGn TIL in all 5 major North American sports, none of the teams that hold the respective winningest season record won the championship that same season
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X0VpD TIL that the suffix 'stan' present in many southern and central Asian countries' names comes from Persian & Urdu languages and translates to 'where one stands' or 'place of'
w6W8 TIL that in 1978 a lone pilot flying in Australia reported to air traffic control that he was being accompanied by an aircraft above him. Asked to identify the aircraft, he radioed “It isn’t an aircraft”. His plane disappeared and has never been found.
X0XRr TIL in 1842, Charles Dickens visited the Whitehouse. He went to the front door and knocked, but no one answered, so he just let himself in.