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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.

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DQoPv TIL Belgian authorities destroyed over 2,300 cans of an American beer branded as ‘The Champagne of Beers’ because the beer’s slogan was considered a misuse of the term “Champagne”, which is legally protected and reserved exclusively for the sparkling wine produced in the Champagne region of France.
x97B TIL Clarence Nash, the voice of Donald Duck for 50 years, voiced Donald’s voice in all foreign languages the Disney shorts were translated to (with the aid of the phonetic alphabet), in order to keep Donald’s voice consistent throughout the world
jENn TIL U.S. mint planned to introduce an aluminum penny in the 1970’s but then canceled the plans out of concern that if people ate them doctors wouldn’t be able to detect them with x-rays.
pb04 TIL Physicists like using 2000 year old ancient Roman lead in their experiments and this is pissing off archaeologists
pY7XZ TIL Betelgeuse is a red supergiant star in Orion that is one of the largest and most luminous stars in our galaxy. It exhibits variations in brightness due to surface pulsations and its size is rapidly decreasing, which has led to speculation that it may soon undergo a supernova explosion.