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TIL Alligators will give manatees the right of way if they are swimming near each other.

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71bL TIL in 2003, female A-10 Thunderbolt pilot Kim Campbell was heavily lit up by anti-aircraft munitions, flying over Baghdad. The plane lost all hydraulics, rolled left and pointed toward the ground, but after reverting to manual mode she was got control, flew for an hour, and landed without brakes.
rN1E4 TIL sperm oil(whales) was used in automotive transmissions until the 1970s. When they stopped using it, transmission failures rose significantly.
b6J7 TIL that Brian May, guitarist for Queen, has a PhD in Astrophysics. He abandoned his thesis work in 1971 to be a musician and went back and completed the thesis in 2007.
ANYln TIL the U.S. government has 1.4 billion pounds of cheese stored in a cave underneath Springfield, Missouri.
LO50 TIL there is a gospel according to Judas, in which he is shown as Jesus’ best friend and asked by Jesus himself to betray his identity to fulfill the prophecy