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TIL in 1997, a cow fell out of a plane and sunk a boat.

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yVGyv TIL the U.S. is the island nation of Fiji's largest trading partner. Fiji's #1 export to the U.S.: water
aYnN TIL that in WW2, the allied powers used fake “ghost armies” to intimidate and confuse Hitler and other Axis powers. They were most known for deceiving the Germans into thinking they had a powerful unit of men away from Normandy on D-Day.
YWbr TIL: 10% of Europeans are immune to the HIV virus.
4XRxo TIL in 2011 at a rural Western NY high school, 14 students came down with an illness: verbal outbursts, tics, seizures, and speech problems. Fears about the cause of the outbreak drew national media attention. One girl had Tourette syndrome. The rest had mass psychogenic illness: mass hysteria.
XEAlr TIL that the prize for the Val d’Isere downhill ski competition in 2005 was a cow, the organizers intended to trade the cow for a $5000, but olympian Lindsey Vonn declined and kept the cow, it was later found to be worth $20000.