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TIL a single U.S. Supercarrier has more combat aircraft than 70 other countries have in their entire military

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BrRXK TIL that in 1969 the Black Panther Party planned a free breakfast program for children, but before the first program was opened "the Chicago police broke into the church and mashed up all the food and urinated on it".
b6By0 TIL that History Channel’s Pawn Stars had a fake pawn shop set built exclusively to film the show in. Because of the show’s huge popularity, it became virtually impossible to film inside of the real store.
gM0PA TIL Harry R. Truman refused to leave his lodge at the base of Mount St. Helens in Washington state despite evacuation orders due to its seismic activity, saying to reporters "If the mountain goes, I'm going with it." He was killed by the pyroclastic flow from the eruption on May 18th, 1980.
XjOE TIL that your LCD monitor consumes more energy when it is black than when it is white
X0eoX TIL that in 1989, scientists at IBM succeeded in arranging 35 individual xenon atoms on a substrate of chilled crystal of nickel to spell out the initials "IBM". It was the first time atoms had been precisely positioned on a flat surface.