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TIL - In 1956, the Marine Corps' AD-4B (A-1) Skyraider had a "relief tube" for pilots to urinate, but no provision for #2. An aviator on a 4 hour flight needed to take off his helmet, and poop into it.

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nQe9 TIL in 2004, a welder demolished several buildings in his town with his own modified bulldozer to fight against a zoning dispute
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