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5MW9 TIL an amateur chemist created a material called Starlite that could withstand temperatures up to 10,000 degrees Celsius. He feared losing control of the rights to the material and therefore never revealed the composition, which is still unknown.
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77O TIL that an American pilot was decorated with one of Germany’s highest medals for dropping miniature parachutes with candy during Berlin Airlift
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