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TIL Jason Statham had competed for England in 10 metre, 3 metre and 1 metre competitionsat the 1990 Commonwealth Games

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8eNWK TIL that in January 2023 the F-35 fighter aircraft still had 821 remaining problems. which is an improvement to the 826 problems it had April 2022. (page 73)
neBYb TIL there is a group of single-celled organisms called Asgard archaea, Lokiarchaeum, named after the Arctic Ocean geothermal vent, Loki's Castle, where they were discovered. They are considered to be the missing link in the evolution of the cell, which separates eukaryotes like humans from bacteria.
6EPA7 TIL in 2005 a 73-year-old Kenyan man killed a leopard with his bare hands by ripping its tongue out
RArj TIL that the AMBER Alert system (named after the murdered child Amber Hagerman) officially stands for “America’s Missing: Broadcast Emergency Response”. When Canada adopted AMBER Alerts, Quebec named its system “Alerte Médiatique But Enfant Recherché” (“Media Alert for Child Recovery” in French).
PYN1g TIL of Elasmotherium: an extinct giant hairy rhino that looked like Mudhorn from Mandalorian