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TIL: If you have a problem with coyotes or wild dogs on your farm you can solve your problem and protect your pasture by adding a “Guard Donkey”.

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Wk9J4 TIL 21 years ago Twenty people died when a United States Marine Corps EA-6B Prowler aircraft, while flying too low, against regulations, in order for the pilots to "have fun" and "take videos of the scenery", cut a cable supporting a gondola of an aerial tramway. The pilots faced no consequences.
0w5kj TIL that Apollo 12 was an exercise in precision landing targeting, and succeeded in landing within walking distance of the Surveyor-3 probe that was launched a few years earlier.
9YGXr TIL that the first easter egg in gaming wasn’t Atari’s Adventure but it was in an obscure game called Moonlander which was released 8 years prior. Surprisingly the first easter egg was a Mcdonald’s building.
NXEYQ TIL that the 1984 Summer Olympics, which took place in Los Angeles, made a profit
vPdWL TIL about the de Bothezat helicopter, a quadcopter that was built by the US army in the 1920s and was considered at the time to be the first successful quadcopter.