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TIL that airplanes in WWI and WWII used Synchronization gear to allow guns to shoot through the propeller without destroying it.

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kObw4 TIL: A bird native to Asia (Shrike) impales it’s prey before consuming it
wLw86 TIL Sheriff Joe Arpaio had detectives purchase bomb parts and coerce a man, James Saville, in a plot to assassinate Arpaio. After four years of incarceration Saville was acquitted and ended up winning a lawsuit costing taxpayers $1.1 million.
RX5a TIL Val Kilmer had to undergo therapy to get out of Jim Morrison character after filming “The Doors”
9O4Q TIL in 2000, a study was done in which 20 healthy non-depressed volunteers were given the SSRI antidepressant Zoloft (Sertraline). Two weeks into the study two volunteers became dangerously suicidal.
rRrRW TIL Japanese Koi are some of the most expensive fish in the world with some of the rarest selling for hundreds of thousands of dollars. The fish are raised in large groups in the Japanese hills where breeders can have over ten thousand fish from the 120 recognized varieties.