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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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0dw7A TIL Jeannette Rankin of Montana was the first female elected to Congress (1916). A suffragist who helped get the 19th Amendment passed, was a staunch pacifist, opposing WW1, WW2, and was out marching in protest against Vietnam when she was 61 years old. A badass.
Vpr8 TIL in the Roman Empire, to increase the dwindling population of the upper class, families with three children were given tax exemption. Many sought loopholes to get the benefits without the burden of three kids, resulting in a network of government spies and informers to catch them.
EggMV TIL one of the most mad Roman emperors wasn't actually called 'Caligula'. It was a nickname given to him as a kid by his father's soldiers, while being on campaign with them in Germania. The name means 'little boots' in Latin and is a reference to the child-sized military gear he would wear
0Jx5 TIL Mikhail Gorbachev, the former Soviet President, starred in a Pizza Hut commercial.
b67BE TIL that PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ are in our blood and recent evidence shows blood or plasma donations can reduce them.