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TIL that the Vickers VC10 held the record for the fastest Atlantic crossing at 5 hours and 1 minute for 41 years, until a British Airways Boeing 747 surpassed it in 2020 with a time of 4 hours and 56 minutes.

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YK8v TIL that James Blunt sings the first line “My life is brilliant” of You’re Beautiful twice in the beginning of the song because he mistimed it. It was left in the final recordings.
loXW1 TIL Germany finally finished paying off debts from reparations required in the post-WWI Treaty of Versailles in 2010 - 92 years after the end of the war.
p8geG TIL that in the entire history of the WNBA only 7 players have ever dunked a basketball.
d8vV7 TIL of fox saboteurs, people who disrupt illegal fox hunts in the UK!
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