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TIL a former president of Vietnam fled to America and ran a liquor store

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AD66l TIL about CRAF, the Civil Reserve Air Fleet. It requires some airlines to reserve a portion of their fleet for military deployments that are on-call & ready within 24-48hrs, should demand exceed military resources. Lately, it is one of the reasons why the govt. will continue bail out the airlines.
WngX TIL that several high school friends formed the Committee to End Pay Toilets in America (CEPTIA) in 1968, which eventually led to laws banning pay toilets in several states
78QWZ TIL That Lewis Carrol's nonsense poem "Jabberwocky" requires great creativity on the part of translators as they need to invent nonsense words that evoke similar feelings to each made-up word in the English original.
KYOK4 TIL: A Boeing 747 can carry roughly 63,000 gallons of fuel. This weighs ~400,000 lbs; nearly as much as the empty plane itself.
8pdK TIL that from the 2009-2010 fiscal year, Susan G Komen foundation only donated 20.9% percent of its $390 million in earnings to actual cancer research.