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TIL If Earth stopped spinning suddenly, the atmosphere would still be in motion with the Earth's original 1100 mile per hour rotation speed at the equator. All of the land masses would be scoured clean of anything not attached to bedrock.

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eNJ6 Today I learned that the waiting list for season tickets for the NFL Green Bay Packers is 30 years.
QJVLk TIL that bumblebees can fly higher than Mount Everest. It’s difficult for most insects and birds to fly at extremely high altitudes where the air is thin and oxygen is scarce but researchers were able to track some bumblebees that were able to fly at more than 9000 metres.
vAYx TIL Cadbury won a 1909 libel suit against a publication for mentioning their delay in ceasing cacao purchase from countries with slave labor. The jury awarded one-fourth of a penny.
v1OV4 TIL of the Unsolved Hinterkaifeck Mystery. German farmer found footprints leading from the woods to his farm, but no footprints going back. Days later he was murdered along with his whole family.
Go5Q TIL that when FDR died in 1945, Harry Truman offered his condolences to Eleanor, asking, “Is there anything I can do for you?” Mrs. Roosevelt responded, “Is there anything we can do for you? For you are the one in trouble now.”