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TIL The F-35 cost the US $397 Billion Dollars vs $26 billion in today's cost for the entire atomic bomb project

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adbM TIL that, after his disabled owner was struck by a car, ‘Endal’ the service dog pulled his unconscious owner into the recovery position, retrieved his mobile phone from beneath the car, fetched a blanket and covered him, and then ran to a nearby hotel to obtain help
rNmYo TIL excavations near the city of Nazareth unearthed 100,000 year old human remains. The human skeletons were associated with red ochre which was found only alongside the bones, suggesting that the burials were symbolic in nature. This is the earliest evidence of symbolic burial ever discovered.
xEl7 TIL in 1982, 5 men walked into a Long Island NY diner and forced over 100 patrons and staff to strip and have sex with each other. They also shot 2 men, raped a waitress, and robbed everyone there. Oh, and that was just the last thing they did that night.
e0QE TIL There were 999 cases of Black Death reported in the United States between 1900 and 2010.
oWOY TIL in the 1860’s, a “perpetual motion” machine was demonstrated at the Paris Exposition. Visitors were invited to try and stop the wheel, which, unbeknownst to them, was the very action needed to “charge” the wheel back up.