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TIL That During Operation Desert Storm, an F-15E Successfully targeted and dropped an air-to-ground bomb on a helicopter.

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x4yB TIL capital letters were stored in the upper tray for typefaces. This is why they’re called uppercase.
5YJ9r TIL that Abraham Lincoln, at 32, fell into a depression so profound that his friends feared he might kill himself, because of the injustice he felt he had done to his wife by having a love affaire with another woman. Lincoln: "I am now the most miserable man living. ... I must die or be be better"
8bV TIL that “preposterous” is essentially Latin for “ass-backwards”
4vw5 TIL in Europe,Netflix monitors illegal downloading sites like BitTorrent, to see which shows are illegally downloaded the most, then purchase that show to offer on their market.
kJGBB TIL that in the 1948 California Supreme Court case Perez v. Sharp, the County of Los Angeles included quotations from Mein Kampf in arguing that the state’s ban on interracial marriage should be upheld.