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TIL the year is 2079, in Nepal

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W7elX TIL Cap'n Crunch's real name is Horatio Magellan Crunch
D1y5g TIL that French was the official language of England for about 300 years, from 1066 till 1362.
YdJd TIL the actor in the 1980 movie Airplane! that played the outlandish, flamboyant air traffic controller…was actually one of the first actors to publicly suffer from HIV and die as a result of AIDS in 1986 at age 38.
v1wbD TIL: Handshakes originated as a way to see if the person you met was armed. You took their hand to see if it was empty and shook it to confirm they had no weapons up their sleeve.
oQ6R TIL of the North American X-15, a rocket plane from the 1950’s that achieved the manned airspeed record in 1967 when William J. “Pete” Knight flew it 4,520 miles per hour (7,274 km/h).