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TIL That SR-71 pilots sometimes came from bomber aircraft because nobody else had experience in long supersonic flights. A crew taken from a B-58 Hustler ended up setting a world record for longest supersonic flight after flying the SR-71 for over 10 hours… over 15,000 miles. Nonstop.

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kOgg5 TIL in 2016 William Leonard Pickard - who was sentenced to life without parole in 2003 for creating 90% of the worlds LSD won a decade long lawsuit against the DEA to get his Snitch's records unsealed.
Bl9b TIL that, in order to communicate with the Shoshone tribe, Lewis and Clark would speak English to Corps member Francois Labiche, who would speak French to the interpreter Toussaint Charbonneau, who would speak Hidatsa to his Shoshone wife Sacagawea, who would speak Shoshone to Chief Cameahwait.
WkgrN TIL Actors that are recovering from a cocaine addiction that have to snort coke on screen can use powdered baby laxative as a prop. The regular stand in for coke on screen, powdered vitamin D is used to cut real cocaine and the familiar flavor can lead to relapses.
edN4 TIL David Letterman and Oprah Winfrey’s long-standing feud began when Letterman bumped into Oprah at a restaurant and skipped out on his bill, telling the server that Winfrey had “been kind enough to take care of our check” While the two shared a goodbye wave.
ooGW TIL Netscape Navigator isn’t dead - it’s code was open sourced, improved and expanded upon, and is now known as Mozilla Firefox.