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TIL during the gulf war an American F-15 dropped a bomb through an enemy helicopter that was attacking friendly forces

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kOdlE TIL In 1983, a German magazine bought what they thought where Hitler’s diaries for $6 million. They were authenticated by 3 handwriting experts, but the magazine refused to let any German experts examine them. The diaries were soon revealed as "grotesquely superficial fakes”.
x0Q0 TIL Chloroform isn’t good for kidnapping - it takes at least five minutes of inhaling an item soaked in chloroform to render a person unconscious
JYO6v TIL a 20 year old committed suicide and froze to death from hypothermia, with a body temperature dropping as low as 19C. He was subsequently revived several hours later after an hour and a half of CPR and various complex operations. He survived and has since recovered with no major disabilities.
awEKJ TIL After over 70 years of separation, people in North and South Korea speak in increasingly different ways. South Koreans have incorporated many English words and phrases into their language, while isolated North Korea has eliminated words with foreign origins and created homegrown substitutes.
a8LXZ TIL that some early botanists thought fern seeds were invisible, and would grant you invisibility too, if you could catch one. Shakespeare even wrote about this belief in his play Henry IV.