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TIL that the US and Israel are believed to have incorporated software into some aircraft that allows them to take control of enemy air defence networks on the fly. The US version is called Suter.

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NP86 TIL that the Packard plant in Detroit is the largest abandoned industrial facility in the world.
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dNlr TIL Scientists have turned skin cells into pea-sized blobs of living brain that are equivalent to 9-week-old fetus brains
rKgW TIL of a compulsive art vandal named Hans-Joachim Bohlmann, who caused almost $190 million worth of damage over his lifetime by attacking famous works of art .
gMYZ7 TIL For Decades, Southern States Considered Thanksgiving an Act of Northern Aggression