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TIL in the 1960's the US Air Force forced live black bears to ride rocket sleds and ejected them from jet planes at Mach 2 speeds

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knQm TIL if you wanted to recreate the entire LEGO movie, you would need 15,080,330 LEGO pieces.
wgbo TIL that Enron cost the state of California as much as $40 billion by causing artificial rolling blackouts in 2000 and 2001.
Eg47w TIL Tom Lehrer, Mathematician, Musician, and Satirist also invented the Jello Shot while serving on a military base
kJWAd TIL the folk legend adapted into a play ‘Doctor Faustus’ was loosely based on a real alchemist/magician Johann Georg Faust
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