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TIL that in the 1950s the US Air Force was developing a highly maneuverable, hypersonic flying saucer. Code named "Pye Wacket" it was to be a defensive weapon for the B-70 Valkyrie mach 3 bomber.

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KYvW6 TIL that several crew members onboard the Challenger space shuttle survived the initial breakup. It is theorized that some were conscious until they hit the surface of the Atlantic Ocean.
1aVRW TIL that for six months Daniel Radcliffe wore the same clothes every time he went out in public, so that the paparazzi could not sell any photos of him.
v17M8 TIL in Belgium and France, Farmers still recover tens of thousands of unexploded shells and ordinance From WW1 that get pushed up by normal ground shifting (frost thrust, etc) and plowed up in farming fields. They call it "The Iron Harvest". They expect this to continue for hundreds of years.
awYAo TIL of Sun Mingming, the tallest basketball player in the world at 7 feet, 9 inches. He along with his wife Xu Yan, is recognized by the Guinness World Records as the world's tallest living couple, with a combined height of 13 feet, 10.72 inches.
loZLV TIL the "Austrian Association of Hiking, Sports and Society" was a CIA-funded paramiltary group created to engage in guerilla warfare in case of a Soviet invasion in Austria