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TIL in July 1989 a Soviet pilot catapulted out of his MiG-23 over Poland, the plane flew another 1000 km. and crashed into a Belgium farm killing 1.

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mAOP TIL six people attempted to steal cobalt-60 rods from a chemical plant in the Chechen Republic. One of them died from radiation exposure thirty minutes after opening the containers for the rods and handling the contents.
j6o7R TIL about the Alipore Central Jail, a prison in Kolkata, India where political prisoners were kept under British rule. It is no longer operational as a jail. The jail site has been now developed into an independence museum in memory of the martyrs who were imprisoned and executed here.
J4Xm TIL that Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone was changed to “the Sorcerer’s Stone” because Scholastic Corporation thought that children would not want to read a book with the word “philosopher” in it.
oBYyK [TIL] US constitution contains many spelling mistakes.
R587l Til Web 3.0 gaming is the next step in the evolution of gaming, where the activities of a gaming platform are delegated away from any central authority.