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TIL that that several buildings in Seattle deliberately evoke traditional regional Native American architecture

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Avkn TIL in 1965 a Boeing 707 had an engine blow up during flight and take 25 feet of wing with it. The plane made a safe emergency landing. Boeing then sent a second plane to pick up the stranded passengers and the front landing gear of that plane collapsed on the runway.
p8YrQ TIL The second largest Air Force in the world is the US Navy
0w1xj TIL that in response to a literal overflow of corpses in Parisian cemeteries in 1780, it took the city 12 years to move between 6 and 7 million bodies to its former underground mine quarries which became the city’s catacombs.
ZpayR TIL: the term plastic explosive has nothing to do with modern plastic, it denotes explosives that can be shaped by hand, stemming from the original meaning of the word plastic, meaning something malliable/formable.
b90Mj TIL after a woman was murdered at a Texas church, it was discovered that a person in full makeshift tactical gear had been wandering around the church before her arrival. They were caught on the church’s CCTV and are thought to be her murderer. Despite over 2,000 tips, the case remains unsolved.