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TIL that a LEGO brick can withstand 950 pounds of force before breaking.

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BrPNe TIL Jack Parsons was one of the founders of NASA JPL and a pioneer of the American space program. He also practiced esoteric magic rituals, and was a devoted follower of British occultist Aleister Crowley, and his group, The Ordo Templis Orientis.
J11m8 TIL - The Airbus A380 has flown on 100% Sustainable Aviation Fuel made from cooking oil and waste fats. The flight lasted 3 hours and used only 1 engine.
0wJYL TIL of Ingeborg Rapoport. In 2015, 74 years after being denied her Ph.D by the Nazis for being Jewish, she successfully defended her dissertation and received her doctorate from the University of Hamburg at the age of 102, making her the oldest person ever to receive one.
JY5vV TIL that in old Nokia phones, the notification tone for an SMS was simply 'SMS' in Morse
Lk0nP TIL 75% of women in a survey said that they would never marry a partner who was unemployed