› added 3 years ago

77

TIL in the first Gulf War a B-52 bomber mistakenly targeted a fighter with their tail gun radar. The fighter shot back with a HARM missile, causing damage, but no fatalities. Afterwards, the bomber was renamed "In HARM's Way."

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

ZBPR TIL during the filming of The Hunger Games, Jennifer Lawrence would purposely eat foods with garlic or tuna fish before any kissing scenes between her and Liam Hemsworth
rNWEw TIL in some situations smells can be trademarked in the US
1abAr TIL Stalin sent most of his qualified doctors to the gulag, a move which inevitably came back to bite him in the ass when he had a stroke from which he later died.
9YGwD TIL about Operation Kitona, when in 1998 Rwandan/Ugandan forces highjacked 4 civilian airliners, flew them to an airbase in western DRC where they amassed 3000 troops, then took over the Inga Dams and cut off power to Kinshasa. Thus began the Second Congo War, second deadliest conflict since WWII.
5VXZ9 TIL claw machine games with live lobsters are a thing