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TIL after MH-17 was shot down over Ukraine, the Russian government accused a Ukrainian fighter jet. After it was exposed that this type of jet couldn’t reach the required altitude, Wikipedia said there were a flurry of attempts from Russia to edit the jet’s page to say it could fly higher.

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780OZ TIL that in 2017, an Ohio Sheriff's office auctioned off an M1921 Thompson submachine gun, that they originally owned. The starting bid was 40k USD, and the Thompson was eventually sold for 90k USD. The Sherriff's office originally purchased the weapon on May 13th 1934.
r68y TIL Famed Skeptic James Randi will often swallow entire bottles of “Homeopathic Sleeping Pills” in front of live audiences to prove that they are nothing more than fake pills.
PYWJO TIL of Viktor Pestek, a 19-year-old S.S. guard at Auschwitz who was so disgusted by the camp that he began to help Jews escape. He was discovered and executed by his fellow guards. To this day he has never been formally recognized for his actions.
oMMr TIL if a female ferret does not have sex for a year, she will die
aXAM TIL that an experimental deployable structure that was installed into the Mir space station that failed to deploy was fixed by being kicked.