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TIL a pilot landed a F-15 with only one wing left.

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6EBDW TIL Christmas was banned by Parliament in 1644 and abolished in 1647. The army actively stopped people from celebrating Christmas. Oliver Cromwell and the Puritans thought Christmas festivities were sinful, wasteful, and had no biblical justification.
v1rdr TIL that a Roman engraved phallus was recently found while repairing a road in Britain confirming that sixth grade humor has not drastically changed in nearly 2000 years.
Ooxa6 TIL that the birth of Jesus Christ is closer in time to the modern day than to the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza
KMWE TIL that illiterate immigrant Jews signed with a circle in lieu of their names. The Yiddish word for Circle was kikel, leading to the ethnic slur “kike”
WvVL TIL in Hinduism the world is destroyed every few billion years in a flood. A family chosen by god survives on a boat with two of every animal.