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TIL Ireland's air force only has 8 turboprop engine combat planes armed with rockets and machine guns.

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P1LNg TIL that people who attempted suicide are statistically likely to have chronic inflammation (a faulty immune system response where you basically get sick for no reason all the time).
woZOM TIL that there was a Commonwealth Winter Games. Between 1958 and 1966 three editions took place in St. Moritz Switzerland.
vPMn8 TIL of the 1616 Russian Bride-Show, when 19-year-old Tsar Michael Romanov selected a wife from 500 medically examined virgins. Maria Dolgorukova was chosen with a golden ring—but was likely poisoned by Michael’s mother, leaving her ill, infertile and ineligible.
e00xD TIL That there were games on demand like PS Online and the Xbox Live Arcade all the way back in 1981 with the PlayCable for the IntelliVision.
KOOR4 TIL Abraham is not the only biblical figure who was ordered to sacrifice their child to God; Jephthah of the Book of Judges offers to sacrifice his daughter, and unlike Abraham it is left ambiguous whether he spared her or not