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TIL Dead Birds were a common theme on Victorian Christmas cards

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W7pWL TIL That Abraham Lincoln once pooped in his own hat because of a prank gone wrong.
BKLd TIL that during ‘Operation Focus’, the opening offensive airstrike of the 'Six-Day war’, the Israeli Air Force managed to destroy the entire Egyptian, Jordanian, and Syrian Air Forces in about 3 hours. Over 450 planes were destroyed, and 18 airfields were rendered unusable.
ObM4 TIL in the movie Galaxy Quest (1999), the scene where Tim Allen’s character overhears the convention goers calling him and the show’s cast “nobodies” and claiming the cast “couldn’t stand him” actually happened to William Shatner when he attended a Star Trek convention.
eejk TIL the first victim of the 9/11 attacks was an Internet entrepreneur who was stabbed in-flight trying to fight off the Flight 11 hijackers
yQbOw TIL 10 Downing Street in the 19th Century was guarded by two men who would sit outside the building in leather chairs, armed with a pistol. Each chair featured a drawer filled with hot coals to keep the guards warm, and a sphere-shaped hood to protect from the weather and improve acoustics.