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TIL that during World War II, George H. W. Bush’s plane was shot down over Japan. He was one of 9 men on board. The other 8 men were captured and eaten.

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R9A7 TIL that China’s Three Gorges Dam shifted the poles by 2 cm and also led to an increase of 0.06 microseconds in day’s duration only due to its huge production capacity
QND6L TIL Jerry Ross was the first human to be launched into space seven times, a world record that Ross now shares with one other NASA astronaut
yVkkX TIL in 1990 Marge Simpson wrote a letter to First Lady Barbara Bush after Barbara said The Simpsons was ‘the dumbest thing [she] had ever seen’.
XEPJk TIL that officer Tennpenny from GTA San Andreas is voiced by Samuel L. Jackson
jN0oE TIL italian astrologer Pietro d'Abano died during his second trial after being charged by the inquisition for using magic.He was posthumously found guilty but his friend secretly removed his body, so the inquisition had to be content with burning an effigy of him instead of the real body.