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TIL Germany sold 22 Mig-29 to Poland in 2003 for just 22 €.

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XELJX TIL Pluto didn't get to complete a single orbit around the sun until it was demoted to no longer being a planet. It was discovered on February 18, 1930 and takes 248.09 Earth years to go one time around the sun.
R5xg8 TIL on James Cameron's 3rd dive to the Titanic, he & his pilot had "a near-death experience". They encountered a sandstorm on the ocean floor & became temporarily stuck there with low power supply & few batteries. It took them 3 attempts from the bottom to rise above 25 meters & surface 5 hrs later.
OpA1 TIL when the Grateful Dead played “Playboy After Dark” in 1969, the band’s LSD supplier ‘Bear’ dosed the coffee urn that everyone on set was drinking from, including Hugh Hefner. Hefner later wrote a letter to Jerry Garcia thanking the band for the enjoyable experience.
LQBpr TIL one of the ways to make Okinawan snake wine involves putting the snake on ice until it passes out, at which point it is gutted, bled and sewn up. When the viper is thawed and awakens, it will quickly die in an aggressive striking manner, which is what most producers look for.
EAv7 TIL that when pregnant women die, gasses expelled from decomposition can cause vaginal ejection of the fetus, a phenomenon known as ‘coffin birth.’