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TIL Top Gun was produced in collaboration with the Pentagon to rebrand the US Navy's image after the Vietnam War and attract new Navy recruits

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gMxY9 TIL About The Red Baron's Rules of Engagement – Eight Surprisingly Simple Air Combat Tricks Used to Conquer the Skies
RO1 TIL John Wilkes Booth’s brother, Edwin Booth, saved Abraham Lincoln’s son, Robert Lincoln, from getting hit by a train.
j6X0p TIL archaeologists discovered an "extremely rare" complete 14th-century gauntlet, on the grounds of Kyburg Castle in Switzerland, that's "remarkably well-preserved."
8aNaa TIL that there are no known depictions of a panda in any art made before the 20th century.
y7Kp TIL that the guy who wrote the first ‘On the internet, nobody knows youre a dog’ has made $50,000 USD from it.