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TIL a safety alert error resulted in Hawai residents spending 18 minutes bracing for an incoming ballistic strike

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PY9DL TIL a song called "Lemon Incest," a duet about forbidden love written and sung by a father and his 13-year-old daughter, reached #2 on the French charts in 1986.
kJ475 TIL the term "semi" as in semi-trailer bears the name from the trailers ability to support itself. A trailer can fully support itself whereas a semi-trailer has no front axle, requiring support from the tractor portion to remain stable.
yQNJM TIL that approximately 90% of all gunpowder used by the Patriots during the American Revolution was supplied by France
4Npa TIL Mexican drug lord Joaquín Guzmán Loera made an appearance at a restaurant where after taking his seat, his henchmen locked the restaurant doors, collected the cell phones of about 30 diners and instructed them to not be alarmed. After finishing his meal he then left and paid for everyone’s bill.
6EJZ7 TIL at the U.S. Open and other U.S.-based tennis tournaments, the men and women play with different balls; the men play with the slower, heavy-duty felt while the women play with the faster, regular-duty felt