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TIL Half the cast of Firefly served as voice actors on Halo 3: ODST

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gMmn8 TIL that Korean Air accidentally strayed into Soviet Airspace, leading to the plane being shot down. To prevent such a tragedy, US President Ronald Reagan declassified a critical military tech and that is how we got GPS for civilian use.
R7V8Q TIL Hermann Goering's daughter has attempted to claim ownership of the art collections that the Nazi Leader stole during WW2. Her appeals have been rejected since the sixties.
nWk8o TIL Abraham Lincoln had a cousin who served in the Confederate Army as a private named Abraham B. Lincoln. He deserted from the confederate army in 1864.
bNa9 TIL that last surviving witness to the Abraham Lincoln assassination lived long enough to be interviewed about it on television.
yQamw TIL that in 1946, a bullpup AK-47 was designed and tested for the Red Army before the actual AK-47 was selected as their main assault rifle