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TIL, it’s possible for a fighter jet to travel so fast that it overcomes it’s own bullets and shoots itself down.

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69dwm TIL: the term "boycott" was named after Charles Boycott, an Irish land agent who attempted to evict eleven tenants in 1880. He was ostracized by the community and his workers stopped working stores stopped trading with him, and his postman refused to deliver his mail.
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gM4BA TIL about the Turnspit dog, which was bred specifically to run on a wheel that turns meat over a fire. They are now extinct
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