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TIL that a Boeing 747 airplane gets 0.2 miles per gallon (0.09 km/l)

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P1Pdw TIL about Hatshepsut, the greatest female pharaoh of Egypt. She expanded Egyptian trade routes and oversaw ambitious building projects, most notably the Temple of Deir el-Bahri. Hatshepsut remained largely unknown to scholars until the 19th century.
8eLYV TIL In German bars/restaurants there are "Speibecken": These are basins into which you can throw up if you've had too much to drink.
Vy94 TIL a concert grand piano has to resist 30 tons of pressure being put on it by the tensioned piano wires
DREe TIL the inventor of the polygraph married the first person he interrogated.
b9pJE TIL Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine. However, as it turned out, it was merely a marketing scheme.