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TIL a new prototype engine will allow travel from London to Australia in 4 hours.

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wL0nJ TIL during the American Revolutionary War the British offered freedom to any slave who fought for them under the badge 'Liberty to Slaves'. Despite the British defeat the promise was kept.
Z8j9R TIL in 2009 Canada passed the Apology Act, which declared an apology is not an admission of fault and cannot be used as evidence.
Xde6 TIL that in 1915, scam artist Charles Hatfield convinced the town of San Diego that he could create rainfall using a secret mix of chemicals. The city offered to pay him $10,000 if he could end their drought, and the ‘result,’ a few days later, was the town’s worst flood of the 20th century.
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