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TIL when Italy invaded Ethiopia in 1935, only Nazi Germany supported Ethiopia while the rest of the world ignored the conflict

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5VNKB TIL About Elspeth Beard: the first Englishwoman to ride a motorcycle around the world.
RdVQ TIL That in 1983, an Israeli F-15 was able to be landed after a mid-air collision, which destroyed its right wing. After the incident, the F-15’s producers, McDonnell Douglas affirmed that it was impossible for such a landing to happen, but were corrected after receiving the photos of the event.
Lkbpd TIL that the title theme from Punch Out (1987) was originally the Gillette razor company jingle- the "Look Sharp, Be Sharp March"
dDA4Z TIL that the Eiffel tower grows 6 inches while tilting away from the sun in the summer due to thermal expansion
GYPRG TIL each year, small groups of eastern gray whales travel from the northern Pacific Ocean along the coast of western North America to the warm waters of southern California and northern Mexico and then back in what is considered the longest annual migration of any mammal, up to 22,000km/13,700miles.