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TIL Dwight D. Eisenhower said "The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants...It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals...We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people."

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D1rZD TIL Evel Knievel, perhaps the best known daredevil, ruined his career when he attacked a man with a baseball bat due an unflattering book. The victim was knocked unconscious and needed major surgery to repair his arm.Evel only served 6 months in jail but lost all his endorsements and contracts.
oddo TIL the Pentagon plans to seed the ocean floor with payloads of sensors, drones and other devices, which will lay dormant waiting to be called into action to aid U.S. forces. This program is called “Upward Falling Payload.”
VBngZ TIL that the first recorded vending machine was invented by Hero of Alexandria, an ancient Greek engineer, in the first century AD. It dispensed holy water in exchange for a coin.
4X9ag TIL that in 1960, Canada bought thirty MIG-21 fighter jets from the Soviet Union, pushing Canadian-American relations to the breaking point. In protest three beavers were executed by pistol on the lawn outside the State Legislature in Frankfurt, Kentucky.
Egmlo TIL that composer Sebastian Plano created a musical album called Keynvor (the Cornish word for ocean) made entirely of ocean sounds from the cornish coast and piano. Each song is named a Lat/Long coordinate to the place where the ocean sounds were recorded. All proceeds went to ocean restoration.