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TIL about Pontiac’s War, the most successful First Nation resistance against European invasion in North America. It resulted in British Reforms to maintain a strong and expensive army presence and consequently tax the colonies to fund the army, which led the way for the American Revolution.

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0d59A TIL that the plane known as "Gimli Glider," that glided without fuel from 41,000ft to a successful emergency landing, was only retired in 2008, nearly 25 years after the incident.
NQd6 TIL the SR-71 Blackbird goes so fast that it outran nearly 4000 missiles, never taking so much as a scratch during its entire career.
oBG6W TIL NASA scientists have confirmed there is water on the surface of the moon. Researchers previously found evidence of hydration on the surface, but it was unclear whether that hydrogen was in the form of hydroxyl – the chemical for drain cleaners – or in the form of H2O, or water.
9YDdQ TIL the Nigerian government has removed history from the secondary school curriculum as a result of the Nigerian civil war (the biafran war) being too controversial, where the Nigerian government blockaded and starved 3 million people to death.
nWEA9 TIL The Ghermezian brothers was inspired by the traditional bazaars that existed in Persian cultures and wanted to build the “Disney World of shopping malls”. They saw their West Edmonton Mall as “ninth wonder of the world” and it had an theme park named Fantasyland until they got sued by Disney