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TIL guns are found in carry-ons at US airports five times a day.

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dDkn9 TIL a Japanese submarine used to attack Sydney Australia was later painted yellow by college students inspired by the Beatles song
A4dw TIL that when the CIA opened a Twitter account, their first tweet was “We can neither confirm nor deny that this is our first tweet.”
awNyy TIL that the 230 best figterpilots of all time were all german or axis power pilots.
9DLr TIL that when US tanks crossed the border into Iraq, they played The Ride of the Valkyries from humvee-mounted speakers
kJZR1 TIL about Hans Steininger, the mayor of Braunau am Inn, (now in Austria) who died in 1567 after tripping over his own 4.5-foot beard during a town fire panic. Normally tucked in a pocket, the beard came loose, leading him to fall down some stairs and break his neck.