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TIL That in the opening minutes of the gulf war, a completely unarmed US electronic attack plane managed to defeat a latest generation (retired in 2014) French built Iraqi Fighter Plane by maneuvering close to the ground leading to the Iraqi plane impacting the ground trying to pursue.

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oBwkY TIL that the Hostile attribution bias is the tendency to interpret others' behaviors as having hostile intent, even when the behavior is ambiguous or benign.
8ekW4 TIL a robot named HitchBot successfully hitchhiked across Canada, Germany and the Netherlands, but got decapitated while hitchhiking across the US
Zp8G4 TIL Cleopatra was the only Ptolemaic ruler to learn to read, write, and converse in Egyptian. She could also speak 7 languages.
g1d8 TIL the phrase ‘bitten by a Winchester goose’ was a common euphemism for syphilis in the 16th century and prostitutes of South London were nicknamed 'Winchester Geese’. I learned this while reading about goose bumps.
dDR78 TIL Dragon Buster (1984) was the first video game to implement a double jump mechanic, and also one of the first to have a visual health meter.