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TIL a plane landed so softly it broke the landing gear

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oJVY TIL during World War II, Japan bombed China with fleas infected with Bubonic Plague
Oo7PX TIL of Trinitite, a synthetic mineral born in the heat of a nuclear blast
GYVog TiL The average millennial credit score is 659
b9Kd9 TIL: An Alaskan husky in the Iditarod will burn about 9,666 calories each day; a rate of caloric burn 3.5 times that of a human Tour de France cyclist. The aerobic capacity of a typical Iditarod dog is three times that of a human Olympic marathon runner.
MZ0A TIL Parents from Germany put their seven month old child on ebay as a ‘joke’. As a result the child was taken into care and an investigation launched into child trafficking.