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TIL: In 2004 the joint leader of "The Monster Raving Looney Party" in the UK was a cat named Catmando

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1Qm4 TIL that long before 1984 and Brave New World, there was a Soviet totalitarian dystopian novel. It was the first work of art banned by the Soviet censorship bureau and was almost completely forgotten as a result. It is also a very go and quick read.
AN9nx TIL, out of top ten Air Forces in the world, USA occupies 4 spots. US Air Force is 1st, US Army Aviation branch is 2nd, US Naval Air Force is 4th and US Marine Corps Aviation is 7th. Talk about overkill.
wDZM TIL that in soviet Russia there was a civilian award for bearing and raising 7 or more children called “The Order of Maternal Glory”
W764d TIL that there is a collection of obsolete and extinct sounds
N7LR8 TIL that pirates wore eye patches to help overcome night vision, and not from combat.