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a8wmN TIL supersonic flight was made possible because of the 'flying tailplane', where the rear wing moved as one surface as opposed to flaps at the back of the wing. At near Mach speeds a planes nose is forced downward due to 'Mach tuch', the flying tailplane allowed pilots to maintain control.
d8bRB TIL in January 1979, Vietnam's army entered Phnom Penh to end the genocide that killed nearly 1/4 of all Cambodians. Shortly after, most of the UN denounced Vietnam and placed it in sanctions
VMEdG TIL that 2 knights flirting with 2 French princesses were found guilty of lèse majesté. They were castrated and then either drawn, flayed alive, covered by lead in fusion, broken on a wheel, beheaded and hanged. Both princesses had their heads shaven and jailed for life.
e0gE5 TIL On D-Day, Paratrooper John Steele became stuck hanging from his parachute on the church steeple for two hours during the battle for Sainte Mère Église. A statue of him still hangs there today.
VMkQk TIL In 2001 a man slipped on ice and drowned in his cat's water bowl