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TIL it was Ben Sliney’s first day as FAA’s National Operations Manager when he ordered the National Ground Stop on Sept. 11, 2001.

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vP6bB TIL that Fidel Castro’s personal love for dairy products and ice cream was so great that he began a state funded project to grow Cuba’s dairy industry by bio engineering a cow that was perfect for producing milk and could thrive in Cuba’s warm climate.
b954Q TIL that "daddy long legs" are not spiders. They are called Harvestmen, or Opiliones, and they are more closely related to mites.
QJErk TIL that The Killers scrapped almost every song they were working on for the album Hot Fuss after hearing Is This It by The Strokes. The one song they didn’t scrap? Mr Brightside
VMwPB TIL that bill Watterson was strongly opposed to merchandising calvin and hobbes, claiming that displaying images on commercially sold products would devalue the characters and their personalities. Bill's stance against commercialism is the main reason why the series never made it to TV or movies.
KOOy6 TIL In 2016, a 10-year-old Finnish boy was given $10,000 by Facebook for finding an Instagram bug that allowed him to delete other user's comments.