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TIL That not just one, but two wars were started because someone threw someone out of a window in Prague.

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jNkRX TIL that since it can't match the Earth's rotational speed, a westward plane technically travels east — just like the entire planet beneath it. It just has engines that help it travel east a little more slowly than everything else, making it move west relative to the ground.
4X5rb TIL that Osama Bin Laden is one of 50 kids from his father, a multi millionaire construction magnate.
awEbN TIL a Louis XIV naval shipyard built a 40 canon vessel in 7 hours only, on 13 July 1679
Qo0k TIL: Bill Murray improvised nearly all his lines in the movie ‘KINGPIN’ and bowled the necessary 3 strikes to win the tournament at the end.
R7KQj TIL in 2013 multiple gunmen shot up power transformers in Northern California and cut fiber optic cables, causing over $15 million in damage and outages. The gunmen were never caught.