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TIL of Operation Mount Hope III, where the U.S. 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment captured an abandoned Soviet Mi-25 Hind D attack helicopter from an abandoned airfield in Libya by hoisting it out with a Chinook and flying 1,700km both ways. They were completely undetected in their mission.

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j4pR TIL pet stores in New York had to ban drunk people from buying puppies, to protect the dogs from irresponsible owners who returned them the next day.
rR61W TIL about Radithor, radioactive water sold as medicine. It was owned and produced by a college dropout, who marketed it as "A Cure for the Living Dead" and "Perpetual Sunshine". It notably killed a man in 1932, who was buried in a lead coffin, and was still highly radioactive when exhumed in 1965.
V6Qk TIL that the 8 year old Afghani skateboarder on the front page was killed in a suicide attack on September 8th, 2012. Here is the news update from the school.
yQMQX TIL that the Colosseum was named after The Colossus of Nero, a bronze, 30 meter high statue that was close by and the statue was one of the seven wonders of the ancient world.
4RZw TIL that cheap pink White Zinfandel aka “jug wine” was invented by mistake. Instead of dumping it, Sutter Home bottled it, marketed it and it’s been the 3rd top selling wine in the U.S. for more than 30 years, making the owners fabulously wealthy and angering wine snobs.