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TIL that at our fastest, we are traveling 2.7 million MPH through space.

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4XDoo TIL In 2002, the FBI was forced to pay environmental activist Judi Bari $4 million dollars after they found her critically injured from a car bomb during an assassination attempt and then immediately arrested her by falsely claiming she had put the bomb inside her own car.
OAyg TIL That a sniper taking a shot at a target behind glass has a very low probability of success. This was one of the reasons why the Sydney gunman was not shot through the glass storefront.
9QEG TIL That a firefighter was killed during 9/11 because someone jumped from one of top floors and hit him
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