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TIL A British ship snuck into the French-built Suez Canal the night before opening ceremonies to spite the French.

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VBWn4 TIL while trying to call home from the International Space Station, British astronaut Tim Peake accidentally called the wrong number.
9KZr TIL of a Japanese air ace who was shot in the face during a dogfight. Blind in one eye and part paralysed, “he flew upside down to prevent blood from blinding his other eye”, flew 5 hours back to base, made his report and then had surgery without anasthesia.
4kOjX TIL: A high school in Minnesota is partially named for the founders of Totino's Pizza (Totino-Grace High School)
awyOZ TIL: In 1994 an Airbus A310 crashed because of the pilot letting his 12 year old and 16 year old children pilot the plane, killing all 75 passengers and crew.
J1dgj TIL there is a village in India. Where people believe that they are descendants of soldiers of Alexander's army. And they are last pure aryan blood tribe. Many women from Germany and europe travel there to get pregnant and have a baby with aryan genes.