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TIL that the Sr-71 was so fast that if a missile was fired at it the evasion method was to outrun it.

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Rlja TIL the U.S. Army Soldier’s Creed was changed in 2003 to remove the part of never doing anything that will “disgrace my uniform, my unit, or my country”
nPV9 TIL that Michelin - a company which awards prestigious star ratings to restaurants - go to extraordinary lengths to maintain the anonymity of their restaurant inspectors, even advising them not to tell their parents about their line of work.
OG9V4 TIL that there is a negative form of the halo effect, called The Horn Effect , which allows one disliked trait or aspect of a person or product to negatively influence globally. For those seen in a negative light, anything they do that is negative is exemplified, while the positive are not seen.
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