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TIL A Qantas Boeing 747 once carried an extra engine on its wing between Sydney and Johannesburg

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O9bX TIL that in 1962 the US military suggested committing acts of terrorism on US soil to create popular support for a war against Cuba. A horrified President Kennedy personally fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff over the incident.
KYbNE TIL In Football, the quarterback doesn’t need to say hike to start the play
M55V TIL One scene cut from the movie Full Metal Jacket (1987) showed a group of Marines playing soccer. The scene was cut because a shot revealed they were kicking a human head, not a soccer ball.
WklaY TIL the only air-to-air kill by an F-15E during Desert Storm was done using a 2000lb bomb, not a missile or rocket.
BrM6e TIL of Hitchens's razor. Basically: "What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence"