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TIL actor Joel McHale, who hit on Mila Kunis' character in the movie Ted by showing her a picture of his high school diving team, actually was an athlete. Originally recruited to UW's rowing team, he became a walk on tight end on their football team the year UW went to the Rose Bowl (1993).

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nW96d TIL During the war with Pakistan in 1971, the Indian Air Force was commanded by a Muslim; the Army Commander was a Parsi (Zoroastrian), the General Officer of the Army in Bangladesh was a Sikh, and the General flown in to negotiate the surrender of the Pakistani forces in East Bengal was Jewish.
YprgZ TIL That the US Army tradition of naming helicopters after Native American Tribes (something that was once an official regulation) dates to 1947 and General Hamilton Howze who felt that helicopters were meant to attack the flank and fade away...in the tradition of the Plains Indian tribes.
6EoBJ TIL that AOL distributed so many CDs that at one point half of the CDs manufactured worldwide had AOL logos on them.
WkJ8X TIL That The Asylum, the company behind Sharknado and dozens upon dozens of other "so bad they're good" movies and shows, has never made a loss on any of its film productions.
1ykO TIL that from a century after the Norman invasion of England in 1066, social status there is more inheritable than height: “English people whose ancestors were elite in the 1100s are still likely part of the upper crust today”