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TIL that in 1985, a US Air Force F-15 successfully managed to shoot down a satelite with a missle exclusively developed for it.

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x6oJ7 TIL that there was a 60s band named Nirvana that tried to sue the 90s band for having the same name as them. They wanted to cover them after that, but the project was scrapped due to Kurt Cobains death.
8ewJV TIL Christmas wasn't an official holiday in the United States until 1870.
oNN7 TIL: A man rescued an abandoned baby to find out that he was the baby’s father.
Zp8G4 TIL Cleopatra was the only Ptolemaic ruler to learn to read, write, and converse in Egyptian. She could also speak 7 languages.
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