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o15E TIL, without permission, test pilot Tex Johnson did a barrel roll in a prototype 707 during a first look at a an air show with a lot of potential customers in attendance. When his boss called him into his office and said “What the hell were you doing?”, he replied “Selling Airplanes.”.
XEArE TIL of Hussain al-Shahristani. An Iraqi who was forced into solitary confinement in prison for 8 years under Saddam Hussein. He kept his sanity by “making up mathematical problems, which he then tried to solve.” He later became Iraq’s minister of higher education and scientific research.
v14eB TIL that bird populations in the US and Canada dropped by approximately 3 billion, which is around 29%, since 1970
Z8Xaa TIL that the United Kingdom bought T-80 Main Battle Tanks from Russia by posing as a fake trading company that was supposed to deliver them to Morocco.
4XNAN [TIL] We know Earth's rotation is slowing, because of ancient records of eclipses