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TIL it costs 6 cents to make a nickel.

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joRn TIL a retrofitted MIG-29 can do a Pugachevs Cobra that leans so far back the engines point forward. Also an incredibly tight Kulbit (roll backwards without changing direction)
x65vo TIL in 1958 a nighttime training exercise resulted in a mid-air collision between an F-86 Sabre and a B-47 Startojet. To save the aircraft, the B-47 crew ditched their nuclear payload to save weight. The undetonated weapon is believed to have sunk near Tybee Island and remains unrecovered today.
VMLVm TIL on Saturday night (30 March '12), the Chief of the Israeli Navy gave a surprise order for 3 ships to prepare to leave for a 10-day exercise; the men on the ships worked all night only to learn the next morning (1 April '12) that it was all an April Fool's Day joke.
WyaY TIL that there is a village in Pennsylvania named ‘Intercourse’.
awn6A TIL that there’s a monsoon flood in southeast Asia that’s 10x worse than Harvey, during the same period.