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TIL The US has been at war 225 out of 243 years since 1776

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neXoB TIL in 1971 Juliane Koepcke’s plane was struck by a lightning and broke up over the rainforest. She fell 3.2km (10000 feet) and survived. Despite having a broken collar bone and being extremely short sighted because she lost her glasses, the 17 years old girl survived for 11 days alone until rescued
7E4M TIL that Michael Jordan forced Chicago Bulls GM Jerry Krause to sign a clause titled the “love of the game clause” that allowed him to play basketball whenever and wherever he wanted, whether it be a pickup game at the park or a scrimmage with college kids.
neP79 TIL the very first sci-fi novel, A True Story, was written in ancient Greek in the 2nd century AD. It featured space travel, aliens, robots, artificial atmospheres and more
N7wQQ TIL that the Catholic Church considers beavers to be fish, fit for consumption on meatless Fridays, due to their semi-aquatic nature.
XbpQ TIL of Otto Skorzeny, a Lt. Colonel in Hitler’s SS who was once called “the most dangerous man in Europe” by Allied intelligence. Years after the war, Skorzeny became an agent for the Israeli Mossad and assassinated an ex-Nazi rocket scientist.