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TIL Top Gear’s Jeremy Clarkson Installed a English Electric Lightning F1A Jet Fighter in His Front Garden. However, It was Removed on the Orders of the Local Council, to which Clarkson said “[They] wouldn’t believe my claim that it was a leaf blower.”

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69o4w TIL Legend says the philosopher Laozi wrote about the Dao as he was leaving China and the border guard insisted that he write down his teachings first. Laozi wrote a book about the dao and de in 5000 words and was never seen again
kR61 TIL of Luigi Cadorna, Italian WWI general. Infamously inept, he sent 300k troops to die in the Alps, randomly executing his own soldiers to motivate them.
ZpagG TIL the owner of the domain milk.com has owned it since 1994 and uses it as a personal blogging space. He’s refused to sell it and even justified his choice on the site.
510B TIL that “Reddit” in latin means “To repeat”.
6ELkQ TIL that indigenous women and girls make up around 40% of trafficking victims in the United States. They are only around 1.05% of the population.