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TIL The F-22 and Eurofighter Typhoon have been pitted against eachother in mock dogfights in the past. The Typhoons proved to be surprisingly effective against the American aircraft, and after such an encounter the USAF “decided they didn’t want to play any more” as a result.

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8eLaa TIL about turducken, a dish consisting of a deboned chicken stuffed into a deboned duck, further stuffed into a deboned turkey
mJrY TIL humans have a tendency to find meaningful patterns in meaningless data.
nJD7 TIL that Godzilla is covered in “keloid scars” to evoke the gruesome marks borne by the survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings. After these incidents, Godzilla was conceived in Japan as a metaphor for the danger nuclear weapons represent to humanity.
kakg TIL that in Ethiopia ‘marriage by abduction,’ which is often followed by rape and forced pregnancy accounts for 69% of all the nation’s marriages.
Rb58 TIL That Mindy Kaling’s real name is Vera Chokalingam; her parents called her Mindy because they thought it was a “cute American name,” and liked the name from the TV show “Mork & Mindy.”