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TIL that in April 1975, Major Buang Lee of the South Vietnamese Air Force became the first and only pilot to land a Cessna on an aircraft carrier, the USS Midway

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D9xj TIL the coelacanth, a fish thought to have gone extinct 66 million years ago until a fisherman caught one in 1938, is more closely related to reptiles and mammals than it is to the vast majority of fish.
jNN1X TIL Conan O'Brien required reconstructive surgery on his nose after a street gang, “beat the shit out of [him].” The damage was so severe that, when asked the extent of the damage, Conan’s doctor said, “Broken? Good god, man, it’s a bag of bones!”
E6o0 TIL Computers can’t generate true random numbers (without measuring external physical phenomena like flipping a coin or cosmic background radiation)
XnJ8 TIL the rabies virus has been known to cause a man to uncontrollably ejaculate up to 30 times a day.
bwlp TIL the term “loophole” comes from the name given to small windows in castles, where archers shot at attackers without the fear of being hit. At first meaning a small opening in a seemingly impenetrable defense, the term evolved to mean a spot where the law can be exploited without actually broken.