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TIL the air force has a program in place that will keep B-52 bombers flying for over a hundred years since they were manufactured

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oB4bE TIL that the Boeing 747-200 Air Force One costs $206,000 per flight hour to operate (including fuel, flight consumables, and maintenance), while a commercial 747 costs about $20,000 to $25,000 per flight hour.
egBk TIL 20th Century Fox gave up merchandising and sequel rights to Star Wars in exchange for Lucas accepting a $150,000 salary instead of $500,000. George Lucas made over $7 billion from Star Wars.
KYXy6 TIL Paula Baniszewski, who participated in torturing and murdering Sylvia Likens in 1965, attempted to escape prison twice in 1971.
N79Jb TIL North Korea has trillions of dollars of minerals and rare earth elements in its earth reserves, but cannot exploit these deposits as the country cannot afford the infrastructure and technology to do so.
0byp TIL that Neil deGrasse Tyson has declined every interview since 1993 that has had his racial identity as the premise: “That then becomes the point of people’s understanding of me, rather than the astrophysics. So it’s a failed educational step for that to be the case.”