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TIL: Due to a software glitch, in February 2007 six USAF F-22 fighter aircraft had their systems simultaneously crash mid-flight when they flew over the international date line.

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e0Ll6 TIL in 1913, John D. Rockefeller was worth $900 million, or 3% of the entire GDP of the United States that year. His fortune was worth a modern equivalent of $418 billion.
l9rK TIL of Ignaz Semmelweis who made doctors wash their hands between autopsies and deliveries. He was later shunned by the scientific community, and beaten to death by asylum guards.
R77pl TIL that, in 1941, when Cernauti mayor Traian Popovici was told that the Jews in his city were going to be deported, he argued against it and was initially allowed to exempt 200 Jews. However, he argued for more and was thus ultimately able to get 20,000 Jews exempted from deportation.
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