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TIL That, in 1956, US Navy Ensign Thomas W, Attridge, while conducting a weapons test on his Gruman F-11 Tiger, aciidentally shot himself down when he flew his plane through cannon shells he had fired.

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QQ0p TIL an elderly man built his own Stonehenge, and relocated an entire barn, using a simple leverage method he believes was used in the original Stonehenge.
M7rxb TIL that the US government no longer uses the term Unidentified Flying Object (UFO), the preferred term is Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP, which previously stood for Unidentified Aerial Phenomena), since UFOs are a source of ridicule due to their popular association with alien spacecraft
Z8oka TIL that the person who directed all those emotional John Lewis Christmas adverts also directed this.
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