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TIL Serbian wedding guests accidentally downed a small plane with celebratory gunfire in 2003

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YeVr TIL if a member of the US military or a US official is detained by the International Court in the Hague, the US has a law allowing it to invade the Netherlands to release them.
yQYgJ TIL that ignorance breeding overconfidence is a scientifically observed phenomenon called the “Dunning–Kruger effect“
oRl87 Til the first recorded use of sonar technique was by Leonardo da Vinci in 1490
VMyw0 TIL scientists have discovered an exoplanet that resides within its star's habitable zone, has a temperate climate and contains water at its surface. However, even with spacecrafts much faster than our current ones, it would take a crew of 98 members 6,300 years to reach the Earth-like exoplanet.
Y7vOP TIL Henry Ford once set the world record for fastest speed achieved on land. In 1904 he drove a Ford 999 on a frozen lake and reached a speed of 91.37mph despite hitting a bump in the ice sending him airborne at one point. The record helped popularize Ford's company.