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TIL in 1989 a MiG-23 pilot mistakenly ejected on take off from Poland, and the aircraft continued flying 560 miles on autopilot only to crash into a house in Belgium killing a teenager.

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OoD8X TIL: of Wilmer McLean. After the battle of bull run happened on his farm in Manassas, he moved his family to Appomattox courthouse. 3 years later, Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant there. He purportedly said ""The war began in my front yard and ended in my front parlor."
EgMpp TIL the most popular first name is the world is Maria, with one in every 119 people bearing the name. But coming in third is "Mohammed", which also ranks fifth when spelled "Muhammad," sixth when spelled "Mohamed" and eighth when spelled "Mohammad."
8d64 TIL Women used to wear foot long pins in their hats which could be used in self defense to stab men who groped or assaulted them.
OorZ6 TIL the last known living survivor of the Atlantic Slave Trade, Matilda McCrear, was abducted from Nigeria at the age of two and died in Selma, Alabama in 1940
M1Na TIL during the WWII, Hamburgers were renamed “Liberty Steaks” in order to avoid the German-sounding name for a brief period of time.