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TIL Taiwan named its homegrown fighter jet F-CK-1 after the US was pressured by China not to sell them F-20 fighters.

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0dkDy TIL that 8 temples of the Roman goddess Minerva (Athena) had been built in Guatemala. Starting with the first one in 1901 under orders of President Manuel Estrada Cabrera, who wanted to create and promote a Cult of Minerva, with its own feast day on his birthday.
wxaM TIL That the Chinese Segway rip off, 9Bot, used the money it got from selling the rip off to buy the original Segway company.
VmPB TIL the AUDIO_TS folder on a DVD does not contain a film’s audio files and was added for potential DVD audio discs that would replace CDs. It never took off.
YpO0v TIL That professional chess players can burn up to 6,000 calories a day despite their limited movement thanks to elevated blood pressures during matches.
1aRv8 TIL that British doctors performed a covert study of the length of time chocolates last on nurses' stations in hospitals, published in the British Medical Journal. They found that the 'decay rate' of the chocolates follows an exponential decay pattern with a half-life of 99 minutes.