TIL that the Swedish fighter Saab 37 Viggen is the only aircraft to this day to get a radar lock on the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird .
TIL that during its war against Iraq Iran used school-age children to clear the ground for its regular troops by running over minefields
TIL of a girl who spent her first 13 years in severe social isolation, usually strapped to a potty chair in a dark room with only a yellow raincoat to look at.
TIL that, in 1958, an economic campaign to modernize China resulted in the deaths by starvation of +18 million people. During this time, China was actively exporting food to Africa and refusing any foreign food aid.