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TIL that the A-10 Warthog has a dedicated windshield washer fluid reservoir specifically for clearing the canopy of soot and carbon after the cannon is fired. It also has fins under the air frame to redirect gun gasses from being sucked into the engines and starving them of oxygen.

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XE5D6 TIL in Quito, Ecuador, a group of vigilantes known as “Acciōn Ortogrāfica Quito” go around correcting all the bad grammar they find in graffiti.
VMny0 TIL that Glitter is destroying our oceans.
7r1Ep TIL there is a timezone running at UTC+08:45 that is observed by just 200 people in the south of Australia
RPyl TIL that Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets has a brief after credit scene displaying a new book written by a confused Gilderoy Lockhart
WgBY TIL that between 1990-2008 forty smart, popular, and attractive college-age males died in “accidental drownings”; but two retired NYPD officers believe it is the work of a serial killer or killers which they have dubbed the Smiley Face Murders.