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TIL Rotational detonation engines are expected to replace rocket engines for space flight.

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R78E9 TIL Shakespeare didn't invent Romeo & Juliet, he took them from a poem called "The tragical history of Romeus and Juliet"
D1xWr TIL of Lachhiman Gurung, A Nepalese Gurkha who lost his arm in battle but continued to fight with his bolt action rifle, single handedly holding off over 200 Japanese troops and killing 31 until the next morning.
PYBVO TIL Mary Baker Eddy started The Christian Science Monitor not for her religious reasons, but so that the world would have a source of news free from "Yellow Journalism"
9Y1xG TIL The US corn industry has mostly grown through increasing government support during the last century. In the process corn became so abundant and cheap that it enabled the existence of CAFOS, ethanol and HFCS production which in turn have profoundly affected the environment and human health.
8evyZ TIL the world’s longest railway bench is found in a seaside town in the UK and was dates back to 1883.