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

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Z8dDG TIL there was X-Men cartoons that came out almost 3 decades ago.
YjA7 TIL that during the Great Flood of 1993, 23 year-old James Scott removed sandbags from an Illinois levee in order to strand his wife on the other side of the river so that he could keep partying. He received life imprisonment for “intentionally causing a catastrophe”.
QJLPp TIL in 1974, the British Army took over Heathrow Airport. Although it was publicly said to be practice against an IRA plot, PM Wilson and the government had no knowledge of the exercise. It was later revealed that the British Army was planning a coup, and it was a trial run.
OoMJL TIL Pokémon is the highest-grossing media franchise in the world with $59 Billion in revenue, $16 Billion more than Star Wars
Nw51 TIL that in 2011, Anonymous started attacking websites hosting child porn. Stating “Our demands are simple. Remove all child pornography content from your servers. It does not matter who you are, if we find you to be hosting, promoting, or supporting child pornography, you will become a target"