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TIL Saul, the old Jewish man, in Coming to America was played by Eddie Murphy

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POmO TIL the declassified SR-71 pilot’s manual states that it can cruise above mach 3.4… climbs faster than mach 3… and weighs a mind blowing “143,000 lbs”…more than the German King Tiger tank. It first flew in 1962 and is also the first stealth aircraft.
EgGxX TIL a man surnamed Nguyễn created a native script for Vietnamese in the 1840s, just before the French invaded and forced the widespread adoption of a romanized writing system
woM4P TIL about the Munich Agreement - lead by British PM Neville Chamberlain, France and the UK agreed to the German annexation of Czechoslovakia’s Sudetenland in September 1938 in exchange for assurances against further German aggression. Hitler seized all of Czechoslovakia 6 months later.
5YaGr TIL of Klaatu, the Band Everyone Thought Was The Beatles
ywM TIL that, 6 years ago, a D.A. investigating the Penn State child abuse scandal mysteriously disappeared never to be seen again. His hard drive was found destroyed, in a river…