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TIL in 1985 the USAF shot down a satellite with a missile launched from an F-15

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1avAd TIL after Albanian citizens lost ~$1.2 billion (~$400 per capita) to Ponzi schemes in 1997, some of the losers started protesting against the government. The protests ultimately turned into a 6+ month civil war that toppled the government and killed 2000 to 3800 people.
wL8ZE TIL that the military salute comes from when medieval knights used to raise their visors so that senior officers would recognise them, and developed from there.
8W7a TIL: Upon seeing the movie “Pink Flamingos” Rodger Ebert said: I am not giving a star rating to Pink Flamingos, because stars simply seem not to apply. It should be considered not as a film but as a fact, or perhaps as an object.
j6J0a TIL One USPS facility in Utah does nothing but decipher your bad handwriting
vPVdL TIL Two months after Oasis's 'Wonderwall' was released, a band called The Mike Flowers Pops released a easy-listening version which was jokingly promoted as "the original version of Wonderwall". Noel Gallagher was later asked by his record label if he had actually written the song.