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TIL The first air-to-air combat attempts were made by throwing bricks and grenades from plane to plane during WWI.

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b8RQ TIL in 1970, a state commission in Mississippi voted to ban Sesame Street because of its “highly integrated cast of children”.
VMKaG TIL that the 2018 American superhero film Deadpool 2 was nominated for fifteen Golden Trailer Awards and won four of them.
WkL14 TIL a man was sentenced to prison for ten years for being the first person to stop applauding a speech made by Joseph Stalin; after a staggering 11 minutes.
697pY TIL that, Dr. Wilhelm Reich claimed orgasms prevented mental illness and he fought droughts and UFOs with giant energy guns. In the 1950s, the government called him a fraud, burned his books, and busted up his lab in Rangeley.
E1Lx7 TIL in 1971, the first person to successfully escape America’s first “SUPERMAX” prison said he did it to bring attention to his water desalination research