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TIL for a human to run on water they would need to reach a speed of at least 67 mph

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kO8YB TIL of Gail Halvorsen who dropped candy to children of Berlin via parachutes during the Berlin Airlift. He was nicknamed "Uncle Wiggly Wings" & "The chocolate uncle" by those children who wrote him letters.
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