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TIL Batman used guns until 1939.
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TIL: in 1985, 747 China Airlines Flight 006 lost power in the #4 engine, and may have broken the sound barrier in a stall spin before recovering successfully.
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TIL that to avoid being conscripted by the Roman Army, some men would cut off their thumbs so that they couldn’t wield a sword. By the end of the fourth century, conscription avoidance was so widespread that Emperor Theodosius passed a law that forced the thumb-less to serve.
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TIL that the US wouldn’t agree to the 1954 Geneva Accords that would allow Vietnam to hold elections and vote for their own leaders. This refusal was a starting point for the Vietnam War.
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TIL Simone Biles became the only woman to win All-Around Gold at Worlds 4 times, unveiled “The Biles” vault, and won medals on all events (4 Gold), WITH kidney stones last year.
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TIL that Pando, the tree from Utah, is the heaviest organism in the world, and the biggest tree-system in the world. it’s 103 acres big.