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TIL when first touching down on an aircraft carrier, a pilot will push the throttle to full power. This allows their aircraft to become airborne again, in case the arresting cable should fail to catch and stop it.

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R7lLa TIL Elizabeth Shoaf, 14, was abducted & held captive in an underground bunker for 10 days. To survive, she befriended her captor & outsmarted him to obtain his phone. She text her family & police were able to trace the number to a nearby phone line.
E1MAp TIL the Saturn V rocket carrying the Apollo 12 mission was hit twice by lightning. 36.5 seconds after launch. lightning hit as it ascended the cloud layer, setting off alarms due to guidance systems errors. 15 second later it was hit again and instruments no longer displayed meaningful information
bjJQ TIL that Kurt Lee, the first Chinese-American US Marine Corps officer, yelled out orders in Mandarin Chinese to confuse opposing Chinese troops during the Battle of Inchon in the Korean War.
ANDVw TIL of the first adult themed cartoon "Eveready Harton in Buried Treasure". Exclusively screened at a party for animators, the short was created by 3 of the major animation studios of the day, but because no US film lab would touch it due to its risqué content, the film had to be developed in Cuba.
0rvj TIL Mithridates VI spent his whole life taking small doses of poison to build an immunity to it. When he was finally captured, he attempted to kill himself with poison but couldn’t because he was immune to it.