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TIL that one of the first hull losses of an F-16 happened when a Pakistani Air Force F-16 collided with a wild boar during takeoff.

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kJwDW TIL that after his presidency, George Washington opened a whisky distillery
0w7mj TIL that famous Japanese actor Toshiro Mifune featured in a Mexican movie called Animas Trujano. The movie was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and a Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1962
nWBy7 TIL that an Irish American by the name of Malcolm Loughead was a renowned engineer who invented the hydraulic brakes that all cars use today. You might already know his company because he got so sick of people mispronouncing his last name that he changed it’s spelling to the more phonetic “Lockheed”
98YM TIL that Glass-Steagall was repealed under Bill Clinton, not George Bush, and is considered the leading contributor to the economic recession
rjE4 TIL Down’s syndrome has been disappearing in Iceland since prenatal screening tests were introduced in the early 2000s. Almost 100% of women who had a positive test for Down syndrome decided to terminate their pregnancy