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TIL a plane landed so softly it broke the landing gear

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Djnj TIL that otters engage in necrophelia so much that it’s beginning to impact their populations
m1NJY TIL that French General Philippe Petain in 1916 was called from a hotel room where he was spending the night with a Miss Hardon, to take charge of the Battle of Verdun.
b99M7 Scientists have found an underlying reason why it's dangerous to drive when you're sleepy. Brain recordings show cells involved in perception fire more slowly in somebody who has been up all night.
j69xQ TIL America and France fought an undeclared naval “Quasi-War” from 1798-1801, during which the Logan Act was passed into law, prohibiting diplomatic negotiations between a foreign power and private American citizens.
m1DXM TIL one night at a craps table in Las Vegas in 1980s Elvis Presley's manager Colonel Tom Parker said "Let me rub your head for luck, boy" to Eddie Murphy before rubbing his head. Murphy wanted to punch him in the face, but said the 80-year-old Parker was "too old to be taught the limits of racism."