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TIL - Humans can outrun any animal on earth in a marathon.

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0MNR TIL the real life ‘Charlie’ from Top Gun went on to become the highest ranking female Pentagon official in US history.
b6bE TIL Stanley Kubrick’s decision to only use classical music in what would become the iconic soundtrack for “2001: A Space Odyssey”, was made last minute in post-production. Alex North, who’d written an entire score for the film, didn’t find out his music had been discarded until the premiere.
W7REB TIL the clear plastic squares that are always mounted to the left and right of Presidents and other Speaker are highly reflective glasses for the teleprompter
YNW7 TIL Camden, New Jersey, with a population of 70,390, is per capita the poorest city in the nation
plg8 TIL that in April 2003 the 82nd Airborne Division fired into a crowd of Iraqi civilians who were protesting their presence at a school within the city of Fallujah, killing 17 unarmed Iraqis.