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TIL one of the very few on-screen adaptations of Gulliver's Travels to portray the entire novel was a made-for-TV mini series starring Ted Danson as Gulliver.

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9YmLp TIL that in 1988, the CIA paid $2 MM to Chad in order to extract an advanced Soviet attack helicopter (Mi-25) from an abandoned Libyan air base using two MH-47 Chinook transport helicopters, flying a total of 500 miles under the cover of night
N7oBM TIL in 1932, Mussolini described antisemitism as a "German vice" and stated that "There was 'no Jewish Question' in Italy and could not be one in a country with a healthy system of government."
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Z8L1o TIL After losing a the trademark "Big Mac", Burger King renamed its sandwiches to troll McDonald's
kJJZ4 TIL The first military plane ever was used in 1909 and had 40 hp.