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TIL There is a voice disorder where a person continues to speak like an adolescent after puberty

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0mEy TIL that the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird was so fast, the designers did not even consider evasive maneuvers; the pilot was simply instructed to accelerate. This could effectively elude any threat, including surface-to-air missiles.
kJobm TIL: Scientists developed a molecule that mimics exercise, called Compound-14.
6959m TIL the first computers were humans, most of whom were women. A person performing mathematical calculations, before the widespread use electronic computers, was ascribed the term computer. From 1865 onwards, women composed a considerable proportion of these human computers, playing a pivotal role.
6EBL8 TIL Pope Urban VII was the shortest serving Pope in history; living only 12 days after his election. In his short reign, he instituted the world’s first known smoking ban, threatening to excommunicate anyone who "took tobacco in the porchway of or inside a church”. He died of Malaria.
kEBd TIL during WWII 18-year-old Princess - later Queen - Elizabeth joined the Women’s Auxiliary Territorial Service and worked as a mechanical engineer to help British forces.