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TIL you can safely land a helicopter from high altitude without engine power.

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kO9L4 TIL that the Chinese civil service has existed in some form for well over 2000 years starting in the Qin dynasty
YpQBG TIL Vincent Van Gogh may not have killed himself, but may have been accidentally shot by two boys and instead he covered up for them by claiming that it was suicide so they would not get in trouble.
KY1vB TIL that in 1996 Caribbean authorities shot at a plane that Jimmy Buffet and Bono were on suspecting it was carrying drugs. Jimmy buffet later went on to write a song called Jamaica Mistaica and put it on his 1996 album Banana Wind.
8mba TIL: In WWII King George VI was at war with Nazi Germany as King of the UK, but as King of Ireland he was at peace with Germany and validated the credentials of German ambassadors. After WWII he was at war with himself as King of Pakistan and seperately King of India
Xgd6 TIL that according to John Deere farmers don’t own the tractors but merely have “an implied license for the life of the vehicle to operate the vehicle” and claims it is illegal to access to the diagnostic software because someone might pirate music from the system.