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TIL “Lucifer’s Gas” aka O2F2 is so reactive, it will combust anything warmer than -300F. It allegedly reacts even with Gold

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4rDb TIL that the father of French author Alexandre Dumas (The Three Musketeers, etc.) was simultaneously born into slavery & nobility & became the highest ranking person of color of all time in a European Army.
ONlR TIL In the Battle of Longewala,1971, India consisting of just 120 soldiers and a few jets defeated pakistan which had 2000 troops and 45 tanks.Only 2 indian soldiers were killed while 200+ pakistani soldiers died.
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neBg7 TIL there is a 4hr long version of Airport 77 that aired on TBS in 1978. The TBS version remains unreleased in theaters and home media to this day.
m145x TIL The discovery of a mummy in a golden coffin in Pakistan in 2000 caused a diplomatic incident between Iran, Pakistan and the taliban who claimed ownership of "the persian princess". A Pakistani scientist determined that the woman died getting hit by a car and a rug in her coffin was made in 1996