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TIL that the loud noise a bullwhip makes, is the end of the whip breaking the sound barrier by reaching supersonic speeds

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VDG8 TIL that the words at the base of the Statue of Liberty - “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free” - are by Jewish-American poet Emma Lazarus, from her poem “The New Colossus.” The quote was added to the pedestal 17 years after her death.
0AYA TIL That the most expensive photograph in the world, which sold for $4.3 million dollars at auction, was photoshopped…
J166B TIL that Pope Francis Was Once A Nightclub Bouncer
kO9Xm TIL that a butcher in Vienna, Austria made Sausages he learnt in Frankfurt, Germany, changing the recipe slightly and called them "Frankfurter". It got so famous that the world (including Germany) calls them Wiener now apart from the people in Austria who call it Frankfurter.
LQolp TIL that a season of Super Sentai (The show that Power Rangers take fight footage from) ended with a ranger getting killed by a mugger.