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TIL The Navy contacted the Village People to use "In the Navy" in an advertising campaign for television and radio. They gave the rights to the song for free on the condition that the Navy help them shoot the music video. The Navy provided them with a warship, several aircraft, and plenty of seamen

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wLlL1 TIL a fleet of Italian-built C-27A cargo planes were purchased for the Afghan Air Force in 2012. Including maintenance costs, the total tab was $596 million. In 2012 they sold them for scrap metal for $32,000 US dollars (six cents a pound.)
xVL75 TIL during WW1, artist Norman Rockwell tried to enlist into the U.S. Navy but was refused entry because at 140 lbs, he was eight pounds underweight for someone 6 feet tall. To compensate, he spent one night gorging himself on bananas, liquids and doughnuts, and weighed enough to enlist the next day.
mxEov TIL Gravity moves at the Speed of Light and is not Instantaneous. If the Sun were to disappear, we would continue our elliptical orbit for an additional 8 minutes and 20 seconds, the same time it would take us to stop seeing the light (according to General Relativity).
M7kjK TIL Michael J. Fox and food writer Michael Pollan are brothers in law. Fox has been married to Pollan's sister Tracy since 1988.
6EQ7W TIL that in 2009, a 10 year old girl suffering from cancer had a dying wish to watch Pixar's Up. Pixar granted her wish, flew to her home with a DVD of the movie and held a private screening of the film. She died later that night.