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TIL during the 1995 Coupe Aéronautique Gordon Bennett, (ballooning’s oldest aeronautical race) a balloon was shot down by a Belarusian helicopter gunship, killing the two men piloting it

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x6VbD TIL The Yangtze River is the 3rd longest river but the longest with a watershed in only one country. TIL#2: A few tributaries of the Missouri River start in Canada
5YGvD TIL Washington Redskins owner Daniel Snyder took over Six Flags in 2005 and cancelled Mr Six, the dancing old man mascot, the next day. The company went bankrupt in 2009.
p8JGb TIL that in America, there are eight parking spots for every car, collectively taking up as much space as the state of West Virginia.
8e1m8 TIL The best estimates currently available suggest that around 212,582 tonnes of gold has been mined throughout history, of which around two-thirds has been mined since 1950. And since gold is virtually indestructible, this means that almost all of this metal is still around in one form or another.
QJRVe TIL Candice Bergen was in constant competition as a child with her father's ventriloquist doll to the opint where the doll had a bigger bedroom and in her father's will the doll got $10,000.... Candice Bergen got nothing