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TIL carrier pigeons can fly up to 110 mph for nearly 100 miles.

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5VnlR TIL Hovercraft are all but extinct from commercial transportation
nxLG TIL Tupac danced ballet in high school and ended up portraying the Mouse King in a production of The Nutcracker.
1am8W TIL about Joseph Bologne Chevalier de Saint-Georges, born in 1745. He was the first Black composer of the classical era, conductor of the leading symphony orchestra in Paris, and a champion fencer. He has been referred to as “Black Mozart”
WMB TIL there are no KFCs in Tibet in part because the Dalai Lama wrote them a letter explaining how the mass slaughter of chickens violated Tibet’s traditional values.
dDrGd TIL of the Miasma Theory; the belief that the nighttime air was poisonous and carried deadly diseases.