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TIL Helicopters have a top speed they can never surpass.

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graPL TIL that there was a six-episode anime adaptation of Robert Heinlein's novel Starship Troopers
b6Zw0 TIL an airline passenger forced an emergency landing when they refused to stop singing Whitney Houston’s song “I Will Always Love You”
YYjG TIL in the 1900’s tampons were soaked in opium and belladonna to relieve pain and relax the vagina.
VB4Qp TIL that Elizabeth I was likely molested by her stepfather Thomas Seymour. He would forcefully tickle her, slap her butt, and at one point cut her dress ‘into a hundred pieces’. This only ended when Thomas and Elizabeth where caught alone in embrace, resulting in Elizabeth being sent away
wLx5M TIL that the hotel with the most expensive suite in Switzerland is named after the US President Woodrow Wilson