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TIL test pilot Thomas W. Attridge, Jr. shot himself down while testing the F-11 Tiger. After firing a short burst at 13,000 ft, Attridge accelerated into a dive and leveled off to fire another burst at 7,000 ft where he was struck by the bullets he’d fired earlier.

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N75vN TIL: Paleontologists have dug up a 130,000-year-old mastodon skeleton that looks like it was butchered by humans. But they found it in America, where people were not supposed to have arrived for another 100,000 years.
p8jme TIL there has NEVER been a perfect game in an officially sanctioned game of the New England/Canadian Maritime candlepin version of bowling - the highest such score has been 245, attained twice
Y7emG TIL that Mohamad Ahansal set the record for the fastest time to run the 250-kilometer (155-mile) Marathon des Sables in the Moroccan Sahara Desert by finishing at 16 hours, 22 minutes, 29 seconds back in 1998
4X1eX TIL At a radiology conference in 1974, Lee Rogers, a physician who had mistakenly swallowed a soda can tab during a basketball game, addressed the hazard to the medical community, which lead to a redesign of a non-removable tab that reduced untold amounts of litter and injury to humans and wildlife.
0w5L1 TIL that Charles Darwin was invited on the voyage of HMS Beagle not as a biologist but for his interest in geology. The ship’s primary mission wasn’t even on zoology, it was to conduct hydrographic surveys and test new chronometers