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TIL that Ivanpah, a solar electric generating system inadvertently created a solar death ray and has killed a lot of birds.

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4GpJ TIL in 1960 a Russian man with a bomb tried to hijack Trans Australia Flight 408. The co-pilot punched him in the face and ripped the wires off the bomb saving everyone on board.
lxva TIL That Iran surpasses all Muslims countries in teaching evolution in its school curriculum.
nQ8G TIL In the Japanese radio censored version of the song “Gay Bar” by Electric six, the line “let’s start a war, start a nuclear war” is replaced with “let’s do an edit, do a radio edit”
KOGn9 TIL That actress Vanessa Marquez, who played nurse trainer Wendy on ER for three seasons, was shot and killed by LAPD officers who were performing a wellness check on her. The footage of their bodycam was just released.
bxk4 TIL that the Isareli airline El Al has an onboard anti-aircraft missile system equipped in their planes. They are the only airline that places its cargo in a decompression chamber before take-off.