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TIL that Solid Snake wrote the screenplays for X-Men (2000) and Watchmen (2009).

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1ae1d TIL small but spacious enough to carry your essential needs with you
kJG5E TIL that in 1962, NASA launched the Mariner 1 spacecraft to Venus, but it missed its target by over 100,000 miles. The failure was traced back to a single misplaced hyphen in the spacecraft’s software code, showing how even the smallest errors can have enormous consequences in space missions.
VBOeQ TIL that Boeing bought 17 Airbus A340 aircraft from Singapore Airlines in exchange for brand new Boeing aircraft in 1999
gMQbL TIL After bragging to fellow insurgents about shooting down a Chinook with an RPG which killed 38 US and Afghan army personnel, US intelligence traced and tracked the individual before dropping four 500lb bombs on his truck and following up with attacks by a C-130 gunship and Apache helicopters
oRPxr TIL Stonehenge used to be owned by one man, Cecil Chubb. He bought it as a gift for his wife, who didn’t appreciate the gesture, as she’d sent him to buy curtains.