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TIL - There has only ever been one successful shoot-down of a F-117A stealth plane, in 1999 during the NATO bombing of former Yugoslavia, the Pilot ejected safely. Since then the US pilot and Serb that shot him down have become good friends.

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R7Pp6 TIL Emily Osment (Lilly in Hannah Montana) is the sister of Haley Joel Osment (The Sixth Sense)
gxp9 TIL the term Intergluteal cleft is technical term for “butt crack”
oRvGY TIL - in 1995, Renault installed their 800+HP, V-10 Formula 1 engine into their Espace minivan, sold in Europe. They had F1 champ Alain Prost test drive it around a race track.
4kNEJ TIL The center of mass for the Earth and the Moon is 4,671 km (2,902 mi) from Earth's center (deep underground). In contrast the center of mass for the Sun and Jupiter is just outside of the Sun.
d8Gk8 TIL that the record for the most overdue library book is 288 years. The book was borrowed from Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge by Colonel Robert Walpole (England) in 1667–68 and returned in 1956.