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TIL its safer to do a 360 on short final at 100' AGL in to Mogadishu in a Boeing 727 than it is to fly over the city.

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6EK5m TIL that there is a group of Germans who deny the existence of Germany as a nation and have their own King who use to be a Karate instructor
XEJr TIL cats are likely killing more than 4 billion animals per year, including at least 500 million birds. Cat predation is one of the reasons why one in three American bird species are in decline
ANOyn TIL of August Kubizek, a friend of Hitler when they were teenagers. It was only thirty years later after Hitler abruptly cut off communication with Kubizek that Hitler rekindled his friendship with Kubizek in 1938. After the war, he wrote a book called "The Young Hitler I Knew" in 1955.
jDZa TIL that Fruit Roll-Ups, in compliance with a false advertising suit, cannot display fruit imagery on their packages if the flavor doesn’t actually contain that fruit.
PypL TIL That Ancient Christians made Jesus’s birth date the same day as the roman holiday Saturnalia in an attempt to convert Pagans to Christianity. Nowhere in the Bible did it actually state that this was when Jesus was born.