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TIL In 1987, the US Army’s Night Stalkers stole an Russian attack helicopter from a desert in Chad

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woyn6 TIL the Canadian Government once approved a plan to extract oil from the Alberta oilsands using nukes, and the project only died because public opinion on nuclear devices soured after the Cuban Missile Crisis.
N7W96 TIL of Aeroplankton, the atmospheric analogue to oceanic plankton that deposit many millions of airborne viruses and bacteria every day on every square meter around the planet.
X01nk TIL The Arthur Miller play "Death of a Salesman" is the only Broadway play to have won the Tony Award for Best Play four times. The original production in 1949, and the revivals in 1984, 1999, and 2012.
r1OW TIL that before the interstate highway system was established, it took a military convoy 62 days to cross the United States from coast to coast.
XE8dP TIL that Mount Kailash in Tibet is considered to be sacred in four religions: Hinduism, Bon, Buddhism, and Jainism. Due to its religious significance, Kailash remains an unclimbed mountain.