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TIL Israel merged the front half of a damaged rare 2 seat F-15 with the back half of an obsolete retired single seat F15. When they asked Boeing for advice Boeing never responded thinking the Israeli air force was joking.

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x6Xkb TIL the artist Tommy Tutone who was famous for the 867-5309 Jenny song is actually a band consisting of several members, rather than a solo artist, and that Tommy Heath was the leader of it.
J1Rl TIL Schweiger (Sgt. Hugo Stiglitz from Inglorious Basterds) is arguably Germany’s most successful film maker.
wDnW TIL There´s a hugely popular reality show in China that interviews death row prisoners moments before their execution
0lnL TIL that before 194 BC, using sticks and shadows, Eratosthenes of Cyrene calculated the Earth’s circumference with an error between 2 and 15%, and calculated the tilt of the Earth and the distance of the Sun to the Earth with near perfect accuracy.
WlPB TIL there was such bad communication between the officers on the Titanic that the ship’s quartermaster, George Rowe, did not know the ship was sinking until he asked why he had seen lifeboats being lowered into the water