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TIL NASA's 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft was secretly modified with missile countermeasures before bringing Enterprise to the 1983 Paris Air Show.

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wokp1 TIL Garry Kasparov helped design a chess-playing computer program. Kasparov also makes an appearance as the last computer profile which has to be defeated in order to win the "Kasparov Chess Club"
AwEw TIL that strippers often perform at Taiwanese temples. Offerings to the gods aren’t limited to food and money, people figure that the gods like sexy women as much as the rest of us.
neRZd TIL that in 2013 The Food Safety Authority of Ireland tested cheap frozen beefburgers and ready meals from supermarket and It found horse DNA in over one-third of the beefburger samples, and pig in 85% of them.
a8kwA TIL During a period of 10 months in 1898, a pair of Lions killed 135 railway workers in Kenya and became known as the 'Tsavo Man Eaters'. During the hunt, one lion had to be shot 9 times. They both became the floor rugs of the hunter until sold to a Natural History Museum.
g0aL TIL Every Simpsons character has 4 fingers except for God who has 5.