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TIL the MiG-15's NATO reporting name is Fagot

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aLDo TIL chief translator for European Parliament, Ioannis Ikonomou, speaks 32 languages fluently, including two dead ones
4Q6g TIL that a man spent 5 months in prison - unaware that his bail was $2.00
Wkwb9 TIL archeologists discovered more than 40 well preserved ship wrecks ranging from Byzantine, to the Venetian, to the Ottoman empires. The wood of some ships was so well-preserved that chisel and tool marks were still visible on individual planks due to the unusual water chemistry of the Black Sea
N78Le TIL: A study found that the "hand on knees" posture results in better heart rate recovery and a greater amount of air inhaled into the lungs with each breath than the "hands on head" posture.
P1QDE TIL James O'Barr (the Crow) has changed his story about his fiancee's death over the years, in 1994 he claimed that she was a high school girlfriend