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TIL in 2011 a marine called customer support during a firefight because his M107 rifle failed and got it back working

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NG1J TIL Clark Gable threatened to walk off the set of Gone With The Wind if bathrooms weren’t integrated.
OWbg TIL the Padmanabhaswamy Temple, which contains over $22 Billion in gold and jewels and is estimated to contain over $1 Trillion behind a mysterious sealed door
65JW TIL that in 2006, a 45-y.o. woman posed as her 17 y.o. daughter online, sending men provocative photos and panties stolen from the girl while pitting her online boyfriends against one another. One of the men eventually killed another in a jealous rage. He went to prison, but she was never charged.
a8edb TIL the US covers four of the top 5 largest air forces in the world: US Air Force, US Navy, US Army and the USMC
4Xdd6 TIL a study of prayer for cardiac bypass patients found that prayer had no effect on recovery and that patients who knew they were being prayed for actually had more complications