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TIL Brett Favre has more victories as a starting NFL quarterback (186) than the Jacksonville Jaguars have as a franchise (140)

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6DoJ TIL One of the test pilots for the interceptor version of the SR-71 was chosen for Apollo 15 mission to the Moon. He had a heart attack after his moon walk and the only reason anybody knew was because NASA noticed it on his heart monitor. It was left out of the mission debriefing records.
GANR4 TIL About the Aqaba to Med. Sea Ben Gurion Canal Project Being Considered, A Global Trade Game Changer. Years Long
neem9 TIL- Even GitLab Has GitHub Account!
0wLBA TIL about the Lost Cause of the Confederacy, "They say that history is written by the victors, but the Civil War has been the rare exception.....the South’s version has held sway in our schools, our literature and, since the dawn of feature films, our movies." — Mick LaSalle
6YeX TIL Swedish Navy detected underwater sounds suspected to be hostile Russian submarines in the 80s. The suspicion escalated to a diplomatic conflict between Sweden and Russia. It turned out later that these sounds came from fish farts, a discovery which led to the Ig Nobel Prize.