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TIL Honda revealed the shape of the B2 Bomber weeks before the government declassified it, in a car advertisement.

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XEyBR TIL that in 1983, after a mid-air collision, an F-15 pilot continued flying and made a successful emergency landing, only to find out after he landed that he lost the entire right wing in the collision.
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