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TIL that after two jets collided head-on at 35,000 ft, one of the jets continued flying for about an hour and was never seen again.

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d8Xn8 TIL that towards the end of WWI a 'second Paris' was built to fool German bombers into not bombing the real Paris. It was complete with a Champs-Elysées and Gard Du Nord, wooden replicas of buildings, and white, yellow, and red lights to create the effect of machines working at night.
RvX8 TIL one of Indiana’s most prolific serial killers was the founder of sav-a-lot grocery stores. 11 bodies were found behind his Westfield estate. He is suspected of killing a number of other men found along I-70. Most victims went missing from Indy’s gay community.
oBARW TIL that Saif ad din qutz was enslaved by the Mongols and sold in the Syrian slave market and then to Egyptian sultan. Rising to prominence under the Sultan, he became the grand vizier and decisively defeated the Mongols at the battle of Ain el jut and halted the Mongol conquest
N7JgN TIL the creator of "The Wizard of Speed and Time" (1988) also did the visual effects for the movie "Ghost" (1990)
68gw TIL that Tsar Peter III of Russia court-martialed and hanged a rat which had chewed the heads off his toy soldiers.