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TIL that F-111s conducted the longest fighter mission in history in 1986 as a result continental european NATO members closing the airspace to the US Air Force.

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Lkm4p TIL the shrewish short-tailed opossum has the greatest number of nipples of any mammal, it can boast a 27 gun salute.
16rJP TIL that the AC/DC song "Whole Lotta Rosie" was written about an obese Tasmanian woman, with whom the frontman had a one-night stand with. Rosie’s identity remain unknown until 2021, when she was identified as Rosie Garcia, who died in 1979. This year, a photo of her was released for the first time.
eLK6 TIL the man who shot President Ronald Reagan in 1981 was found not guilty by reason of insanity,and lives freely today at his mother’s house
4XXRJ TIL during the Apollo program, Cape Canaveral was renamed Cape Kennedy
VBJ5p TIL there is 1 building, 1 ship and over 50 organisms named after David Attenborough, including a grasshopper, a Jelly and a Dinosaur