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TIL that the United States Navy shot down an Iranian Airbus A300 after it was incorrectly identified as an attacking F-14 Tomcat fighter. The entire 290 civilian passengers and crew onboard were killed.

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xVd97 TIL In 1993 a French man driving a Citroen car in a remote area of the Moroccan desert had a breakdown and became stranded. To survive he tore down the car, built a motorcycle from the parts, and rode it back to civilization. When he arrived he was ticketed for operating an illegal vehicle.
KRnJ TIL It is illegal to use native bird species for commercial purposes, and that is why in Hollywood movies birds are often “wrong” species.
LkDQr TIL a British charity advises women at risk for forced overseas marriages to hide a spoon in their underwear. This sets off the airport metal detector and gives the woman the chance to be examined in private, away from her family.
Bgpjy TIL that data consistently show a spike in traffic deaths following the Super Bowl, and a spike in drunk-driving deaths specifically. For the five Super Bowls between 2015 and 2019, there were 244 total traffic deaths nationwide in the 12-hour period during and after the Super Bowl.
ExeV TIL if cars were driven by computers, a single lane of freeway could transport road trains of up to 35,000 vehicles per hour (up from 1,500 human driven cars per hour)