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TIL A North Korean fighter pilot defected with his MiG-15 in 1953 and was rewarded with $100,000 from the United States

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4XNRJ Today I learned that the earliest audio recording of the word "fuck" was made in 1885. A technician at Volta labs was testing his equipment when it malfunctioned and recorded his iritated response.
77BX TIL 90% of Lighting Strike victims survive.
696bJ TIL that during a theater play of The Passion of Christ, a man had to be taken away after he ran on stage and hit one of the roman soldiers with a motorcycle helmet in an attempt to save Jesus from being crucified.
VlR4 TIL that Steve Jobs was really unhygienic: he thought that by eating only fruit the need to shower was eliminated, so he stopped showering. When he worked for Atari, his boss assigned him the night shift so that he wouldn’t need to interact with other people.
LQ6RV TIL: Genghis Khan was took an arrow in the knee while on campaign against the Jin Dynasty and instead of retiring, went on to pillage and sack the Jin capital