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TIL there is a World War I fighter plane on top of a skyscraper in Manhattan

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b4wZ TIL that scientists created a “quantum gas” that reached temperatures below absolute zero in which it exhibits characteristics similar to dark energy.
Bk9k TIL that Filip Konowal, a Canadian WW1 veteran and Victoria Cross recipient, upon discovering that a bootlegger had viciously beaten a friend of his, disarmed the man and stabbed him to death. Konowal later told police: “I’ve killed fifty-two of them, that makes the fifty-third.”
4vmJ TIL Clerks was made for $27,575, mostly funded by credit cards in Kevin Smith’s name, proceeds from selling his comic collection, a family donation and paychecks from the stores the film is about.
vPMd8 TIL that Mike White, the creator, writer and director of the TV show The White Lotus, also played Ned Schneebly in the film School of Rock.
GALyQ TIL that spiders do not sleep.