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TIL that in 2003, an Airbus A300 cargo plane landed safely in Baghdad despite being struck by a missile on the left wing, losing a fuel tank, and losing all hydraulic control surfaces, forcing the pilots to guide the plane to an airport using only engine thrust to steer the plane.

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8aGrZ TIL in 1944, 22-year-old Corporal Anthony Damato threw himself on an enemy hand grenade, saving the lives of his two Marines at the cost of his own life. President Roosevelt later awarded him the Medal of Honor calling it a "fearless and valiant sacrifice reflecting great upon himself and the US".
epwLg TIL Pedro Rodrigues Filho, one of Brazil's most prolific killers. Having killed between 71-100+ criminals as a vigilante (including his father), he was given a the maximum sentence in Brazil of 30 years. Filho now has a successful YouTube career with 250k subs
aw8WZ TIL University of Michigan researchers discovered that far fewer couples who drank together reported negative attitudes toward their marriage. The study found that when one partner drank while the other abstained, marital dissatisfaction spiked.
jkov TIL of Garfield Minus Garfield, a site dedicated to removing Garfield from the Garfield comic strips in order to reveal Jon Arbuckle as isolated, lonely, and depressed.
waP8 TIL that there is a plant called Acacia phlebophylla which only grows in one place in the world, Mount Buffalo in Australia. It also happens to be one of the purest natural sources of the psychadelic drug DMT.