x6Ae5 TIL That Amelia Earhart had a copilot when she disappeared, his name was Fred Noonan.
epWB6 TIL that until 1976, the US Army shared responsibility with the Marines for transporting the President by helicopter. When crewed by their personnel, the aircraft was known as "Army One".
VBVk0 TIL that behind Pluto there is a dwarf planet that is 27% bigger than Pluto, and we didn't know about it until 2005
X0POk TIL from 1971 to the 2000s, the MIT Blackjack Team, a team of students and alumni of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard and other colleges, beat casinos at blackjack worldwide through card counting and other methods
OG9Va TIL that despite being 69 years old at the time and a civilian John L. Burns fought for the Union at the battle of Battle of Gettysburg.
69oeQ TIL Jonas Salk, Who Invented the Polio Vaccine, Could Have Been the Richest Person in the World If He Had Patented It, but He Chose to Give It Away for Free
woAYY TIL there's a war called "the War of Jenkin's Ear". A war in the 1700s triggered by the alleged cutting off of a Mr Jenkin's ear off the coast of Florida
R5wMa TIL George III was the first British monarch to study the sciences as part of his education
W7eEL TIL the London Jamme Masjid, a mosque in London's East End, was formerly a synagogue that was itself formerly a church in the past- consecrated as the Spitalfields Great Synagogue in 1891 and a Methodist chapel in 1819, showcasing the succession of urban migrants in the area.
9wKkp TIL, The Netherlands gives Canada 20,000 tulips every year as a thank you for protecting the Dutch royal family in WW2
nW87W TIL John Krasinski fought for a deaf actress Millicent Simmonds to be cast in 'A Quiet Place'; she taught everyone sign language on set.
4koEX TIL there once was a footballer who got shot because of a prank