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TIL Northrop designed a cheap fighter that was so good, its considered one of the best fighters never to enter production. Despite not even entering service, it ended up saving the government huge sums of money because the existing competition dropped their prices to avoid letting it get any sales.

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AnMx TIL that as the result of a diplomatic error, the Netherlands remained in state of war with a set of English islands for over 300 years. Upon signing a peace treaty in 1986, the Dutch ambassador joked that it must have been harrowing for the islanders “to know we could have attacked at any moment.”
KYj9E TIL that Ketchup used to be made without tomatoes.
neamo TIL in the half-century between April 1964 and April 2013, only one issue of Mad magazine was published which didn't contain new material by cartoonist Al Jaffee. At age 97 as of 2018, Jaffee still does the "Fold-in" for MAD.
9eZG TIL during the 1968 My Lai Massacre one helicopter pilot landed between the marauding American troops and innocent civilians and threatened to kill the Americans if they continued. He was later awarded America’s highest honor for bravery not directly involving combat
m1ddR TIL in 1995, a man was convicted by a court in France for the murder of a teenage girl. However, he fleeing to Germany. In 2009, the father of the victim organized a team to abduct the killer from Germany and deliver him to a French courthouse, where he was finally sentenced to 15 years in prison.