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TIL A fighter jet pilot shot his own plane down by flying into his own bullets

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6EVr7 TIL that cotton shopping bags need to be used 7100 to 20,000 times for their environmental impact to be the same as a plastic bag
kGZB TIL Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married
Lrn9 TIL Britain used the Australian outback as a nuclear testing ground, exploding seven Atomic Bombs at Maralinga in the south-west Australian outback.
yVMXw TIL about Peter Sinks, a sink hole in Utah at 8,100ft that is one of the coldest places in the U.S, the temp was once recorded at -69°F. From the brim to the basin the temp can diff by as much as 70°.
yQ0bp TIL In 1974, the city of Spokane installed Garbage-Eating Goat Statue. The metal goat sculpture has a vacuum inside that allows the goat to “eat” small pieces of garbage as part of a creative solution to eliminating litter.