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TIL the A-10 “Warthog” is designed to fly with one engine, one tail, one elevator, and half of one wing missing.

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xVRjk TIL that on February 7 1981, a Tupolev Tu-104 passenger jet crashed during take off from Pushkin Airport near Leningrad, Russia, resulting in the death of all 50 people on board, including 16 Soviet admirals and generals, among them the commander of the Pacific Fleet.
gEAb TIL that the skull recovered by the Soviets that was believed to have been Adolf Hitler’s was tested in 2009 and was confirmed to be of a woman in her 30s
9ljG TIL Susan Rice persuaded Bill Clinton to not take Osama Bin Laden into custody in 1997.
l7MLG TIL about composer Claude Vivier’s murder in 1983, which some believe was actually an elaborate suicide. Vivier was stabbed to death by a man he picked up at a bar. Later an unfinished score of Vivier’s was found in which the protagonist Claude is stabbed to death by a man he meets in the subway.
JYQQB TIL that the Shaggy defense, AKA "It Wasn't Me", is a real legal strategy often cited in criminal proceedings and legal writing as such.