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TIL that lost WWII planes were discovered in mint condition in a Myanmar jungle in 2012- almost 140 were found still in crates underground

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VMgVm TIL Nigeria drinks more Guinness beer than any other country.
nm9W TIL the spikes at the end of a dinosaur’s tail is called the thagomizer, a term coined by Gary Larson in a 1982 Far Side comic.
YpxmG TIL in 2017, King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands revealed that he is a part-time commercial pilot for KLM since 1996.
v1jo8 TIL one of the lost Faberge eggs from Imperial Russia was discovered in 2012 after the owner, a scrap metal dealer, struggled to sell it because prospective buyers thought he was overestimating it’s worth in gold and jewels. It was later valued at £20million.
BggML TIL A Spaceplane is in development set to launch in 2023