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

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6E7mJ TIL that there is a fish that can cause hallucinations when eaten. The Ancient Romans consumed it as a drug, and its name in Arabic means "the fish that makes dreams". Its effects are thought to come from the fish's diet of phytoplankton.
ODv7 TIL that an international team of astronomers has spotted the farthest known gravitational lens and, as Albert Einstein predicted, it is a galaxy that deflects and intensifies the light of a much further object.
oROPo TIL that in 1858, poisoned candy killed 20 people in Bradford, England, and sickened 200 more, when a sweets manufacturer accidentally adultered his sweets with arsenic instead of gypsum (the latter of which was used at the time as a bulking agent and adulterant)
PWmG TIL that Muzzammil Hassan, the founder of a TV network designed to combat negative stereotypes of Muslims, beheaded his wife because she filed for divorce
LkD40 TIL - Shirley Temple was among the highest profile advocates about breast cancer awareness. In 1972 it was common for doctors not to tell women their diagnosis and to initiate mastectomy without their knowledge or consent because they were thought unable to deal with the news of their affliction.