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TIL The first commercial plane ever shot down, in 1938, was salvaged from a river bottom, rebuilt, renamed and returned to service only to be destroyed in 1940 in another shooting incident.

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4wjN TIL, On the show Married with Children, the character Seven appeared in seven episodes during season seven before disappearing with no explanation.
grrk9 TIL Tom Dolan, despite having both exercise induced asthma and a narrow trachea giving him access to only about 20 percent of the air an average person breath—was at one time considered the best swimmer in the world and is a two time Olympic gold medalist and world record holder.
J1Bb8 TIL The nucli of multicellular fungi cells can migrate, if a fungus encounters something strange like a substance that can't be broken down, nuclei will concentrate in that area to try and find a mutation that can break it down, brute-forcing their DNA, seen also with consuming plastic and radiation
KMAE TIL A Study found that Chocolate Milk performs better than Energy Drinks
KYNBR TIL animals are beheaded as part of a postmortem rabies tests.