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TIL that during the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster pilot Michael Smith’s Personal Egress Air Pack was manually activated. Meaning he most likely survived the initial explosion, losing his life only when the cabin smashed into the ocean.

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GYXbN TIL the likely record for fastest manmade object is a manhole cover launched by a nuclear bomb. A high-speed camera recording the lid only caught one frame of it moving meaning it was traveling over 125,000 miles per hour
OoOYX TIL a female swan is called a Pen
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1rV TIL ITT Corporation backed coups with the CIA in Brazil and Chile to keep their phone companies from being nationalized by the governments in power.