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TIL Helicopters have a top speed they can never surpass.

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o64A TIL During the 2000 election, the Gore campaign received an anonymous package containing debate prep materials from the Bush campaign and they called the FBI in response.
wm86 TIL, that the North Korean World Cup soccer fans are actually hand picked by the NK government and are also made up of Chinese volunteers since North Koreans are not allowed to travel.
NXGmN TIL Steve Comisar sold "solar powered clothes dryers" in national magazines for $49.99 and subsequently sent customers a clothesline.
neGrb TIL of hyperparasites, parasites who parasitize other parasites/parasitoids
loKQ5 TIL in 2014, an 89 year old WW2 veteran, Bernard Shaw went missing from his nursing home. It turned out that he went to Normandy for the 70th anniversary of D-Day landings against the nursing home's orders. He left the home wearing a grey mack concealing the war medals on his jacket.