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TIL The fastest Cheetah ever recorded was named Sarah. In 2012, then-11-year-old Sarah was filmed running on a U.S.A. Track and Field-certified course at an unmatched pace of 61 miles per hour. Sarah’s 5.95 second 100-meter dash holds the known planet-wide record.

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P1ne TIL: Audio cassette data storage was once so popular in some countries that radio stations would broadcast computer programs that listeners could record and then load into their computer.
4XeB5 TIL about Mariya Oktyabrskaya. When her husband was killed in 1941, she paid for a tank, named it "Fighting Girlfriend," and distinguished herself as a fearless and deadly tank driver, often repairing her tank under heavy fire. After she died in March 1944, she was named a Hero of the Soviet Union.
W79n9 TIL 1 of 2 German V1 rockets in the US is located at the courthouse in Putnam County, IN. After WWII, a local resident working in arms disposal thought it a shame to dispose of the relic, and had it placed in his hometown. It is now a memorial for local veterans who lost their lives during the war.
O88X TIL Saved By the Bell executive producer Peter Engel used to have threesomes with Tiffani-Amber Thiessen and Mark-Paul Gosselaar in his office
GApKG TIL about Project Venona, the US effort to decrypt KGB/GRU intercepts leading to some of the greatest intelligence breakthroughs during the cold war. Including exposing critical Soviet assets, (ie. the Rosenbergs, David Greenglass, and Kim Philby)