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TIL A group of feral cats is called a destruction

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JR4Q TIL that the Red Baron was killed because of a single bullet, which hit him while he was in the air, and that he managed to land his plane without damaging it before he died.
oB1gY TIL that Russia offered to sell Alaska to Liechtenstein, and only offered it to the USA after they declined.
ABVw TIL The motto for Gas, Kansas is “Don’t Pass Gas, Stop and Enjoy It”
8YeX TIL that the first programmer for the ENIAC was Jean Bartik, who learned to program the computer with no manual and only by looking schematic diagram as she did not have the clearance to see the computer.
Nal6 TIL of Bertha Benz, wife of the inventor of the first modern automobile, who made the first ever long-distance drive to market the invention. Along the way, she used her garter to repair the ignition and invented the first pair of brake pads. The 66mi trip took her the entire day.