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TIL: In 1986 the US refitted Chinese J-8 interceptors with US avionics

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pYoQ8 TIL that aniseed balls were incorporated into limpet mines in the 1930s. The balls were situated between striker and detonator and dissolved in a consistent time of ~35 minutes, allowing saboteurs time to escape after being attached to a target.
D1Y1P TIL of "After School Satan", an after school program run in public schools across the US by The Satanic Temple, which emphasizes a scientific and rationalist, non-superstitious world view.
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LkKlm TIL that Benjamin Wade, a 19th century "Radical Republican", earned praise from Karl Marx in the preface of Das Kapital for his open criticism of capitalism
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