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TIL That Lockheed Martin is working on a hypersonic spy plane to replace the famous SR-71 Blackbird

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yQg4v TIL that Lenin's body is on public display in Moscow and has been almost all the time since his death 96 years ago.
jNwKN TIL that cement is the most widely used material in existence and the most-used resource in the world, second only to water.
pyje TIL that Time Magazine honored Pikachu as one of the “best people” in 1999.
neBpG TIL that despite having a PHD in statistics, Carl Gugasian, the most prolific bank robber in American history AKA the Friday Bank Robber, chose a life of crime because he feared that he would never find a job due to spending 2 years in prison as a teenager for robbing a candy store.
d8GoQ TIL that between 1968 and 2000, directors would use the pseudonym Alan Smithee to discredit themselves on projects they were dissatisfied with