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TIL that in 2003 Serbian wedding guests accidentally shot down a small plane with celebratory gunfires

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kGW7 TIL a 20-year old anonymous British man from Birmingham dresses up as Spider Man in the night to help homeless people - by buying them food from the supermarket.
1akmr TIL Pangolins are used in Chinese traditional medicine to treat excessive anxiety; hysterical crying in children; women thought to be possessed by devils and ogres; malarial fever; and deafness. These claims are not based on scientific evidence.
xna7 TIL the United States’ national anthem began its life as a drinking song in an English gentlemen’s club
60BZ TIL there is a bone disorder in children that causes their bones to be extremely, easily broken, and that parents are going to prison for child abuse because the disorder is very often overlooked or misdiagnosed.
woYAW TIL that Canadian Pacific Air Lines Flight 21 crashed due to an explosion that has yet to be solved after 57 years. All 52 passengers and crew members died.