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TIL that every last F14 Tomcat america has in flyable storage is being shredded to prevent spares reaching Iran who are still flying the ones sold to them by the US in the 70’s

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wGdJ TIL that the Red Cross adopts local religious symbolism, leading to the Red Crescent in Muslim countries and the Red Star of David in Jewish ones.
XEeKP TIL the original inventor of perforated toilet paper included a diagram in the patent (filed 1891), which clearly shows the correct orientation of the roll is over, not under.
pYnZA TIL that Wheaties and other iron-fortified cereals will stick to magnets
ZXlR TIL that Bill Burr once berated an entire crowd for 12 minutes due to how they treated comics that were on before him.
l9W1 TIL the buzzing sound bees make isn’t actually their wings beating, but rather the bee vibrating its flight muscles.