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TIL Helicopters have a top speed they can never surpass.

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yQ5Bl TIL: During the Russian famine of the 1920s, Government officials advised starving residents to dig up the dried bones of animals, grind them into flour and bake a “bread substitute [that has] a nutritive value of 25 percent more than rye bread, in spite of its unpleasant smell and taste”.
9D7Q TIL the Nazis considered Native Americans to be part of the Aryan race.
QJyyL TIL that there is a living tree whose species had lived in the age of dinosaurs is now the last of its kind.
8a48K TIL NASA tried to get Big Bird to go on a space shuttle mission to inspire kids, and he would have died if he did (in the Challenger space shuttle disaster).
4YkN TIL that Bank of America mistakenly foreclosed a couple (Warren and Maureen Nyerges), who sued and won a judgment for $2500 in Legal expenses. While bank didn’t pay the couple showed up at the bank with a moving company, a deputy, and a writ allowing them to start seizing furniture and cash