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TIL An engineer named Walter "Taffy" Holden accidentally took off in a military jet without knowing how to fly it

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jwDv TIL that the song Chocolate Salty Balls from South Park reached No. 1 on the UK Singles Charts
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D1laP TIL about the Nazi program to develop nuclear weapons. The program suffered from a lack of scientists, as the politicization of research in Nazi Germany had pushed most scientists to flee to the United States.
VBgJB TIL the world’s oldest animal on land is a tortoise called Jonathan at 187 years old in 2019.
Z8O04 TIL there was a rumor in the 1960s that Japan made products in a town called Usa which were then exported to the US with the label "MADE IN USA" to make them appear as if they were made in the US.