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TIL: Texas, by Supreme Court ruling, cannot secede from The Union

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5VY1n TIL on the JH-7 fighter jet's maiden flight (12/07/1988), its engines started vibrating so wildly that by the time it reached the airfield, none of its instruments worked anymore since their connections to the panel had all shaken loose. Nonetheless, the pilot managed to land the prototype safely.
6E4lW TIL that the sun loses about 6 million tons of mass every second due to nuclear fusion and the solar wind. Despite constantly losing large sums of mass, it has only lost roughly 0.05% of its original mass over the last 4.5 billion years.
GYVM7 TIL that Marie Skłodowska Curie, the first and only woman awarded twice a Nobel Prize, married with Pierre Curie (Nobel Prize for Chemisty), had a daughter that was awarded too, jointly with his husband in 1935. This made the Curies the family with the most Nobel laureates to date.
9Orr TIL In 1944, a British captain and his troops came under heavy fire in which he single handedly organized defenses, carried wounded to safety, was shot in the face and arms, then ordered his men to fall back as he held his position with just a pistol and grenades, where he was last seen.
v1kVr TIL that, Hinduism has 5 schools of thought out of 11 that are atheist, largely due to belief in Karma.