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OGEJg TIL two of the top innovators in US military technology are called Palantir and Anduril
VMgYZ TIL of 102-year-old cyclist Robert Marchand who held the 100-plus category one-hour record of 24 kilometres and 251 metres until he broke his own record at the age of 102 years riding 26 kilometers and 927 metres in one hour.
rRZy0 TIL When Diana Ross performed the Super Bowl halftime show in the middle of her last number, a helicopter landed in the middle of the field, she boarded it, and continued singing "take me higher, I will survive" as she flew out of the stadium.
yVKDJ TIL Lucy Liu was discovered by an agent while riding on a New York subway, which led to her first role in a commercial
KY9ZR TIL there are 78,000 people in the "Unorganized Borough" of Alaska, which has an area of 323,440 sq mi (still larger than Texas the second biggest state). This is equivalent in population to Chelan County, Washington, or one-twentieth of Manhattan, less than one square mile.