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TIL that kookaburras are also known as laughing jackasses

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1ELO TIL the Jesuit Order is credited as the single most important contributor to experimental physics in the 17th and 18th Centuries, with significant contributions to the study of magnetism, optics, and electricity; observed the colored bands of Jupiters surface, the Andromeda nebula, and Saturns Rings
6OEl TIL 240,000 manhole and street-drain covers were stolen in Beijing in 2004
4Nww TIL Stephen Hawking guest starred in an Episode of Star Trek, as himself, playing a game of poker with Albert Einstein, Sir Isaac Newton and Data.
kOGG1 TIL that in April 1975, Major Buang Lee of the South Vietnamese Air Force became the first and only pilot to land a Cessna on an aircraft carrier, the USS Midway
dDxYK TIL After staging a coup and seizing control of the Congolese government in 1965, the terrible dictator Mobutu went on to host The Rumble in the Jungle in 1974- arguably the greatest heavy-weight boxing match of all time between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman, featuring the famous rope-a-dope.