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TIL helicopters can produce deadly turbulance at airfields which can make small "General Aviation" aircraft lose control and crash if not properly managed.

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x6Elk TIL Bruce Springsteen wrote a song for the Ramones after Joey Ramone asked him to. However, his manager convinced him to keep it, as songs Bruce gave to other artists kept becoming hits, while Bruce didn't have big hit singles yet. That song ended up being Hungry Heart, Bruce's first top 5 single.
e0405 TIL: Hitler never won a majority of the popular vote. The most the Nazis received in a free and fair election was 37% of the popular vote in the July 1932 German federal election.
7r7MX TIL During the summer of 1988, Canadian marathon swimmer Vicki Keith swam across all 5 Great Lakes to raise money for charity, covering a total of 253 kilometres (157 miles) in 160 hours and 22 minutes over a two month period.
eb4 TIL the mold in blue cheese is Penicillium
YpvrA TIL: the guy who played the Nazi leader in Casablanca was also the inspiration for the Joker and a solid dude. Conrad Veidt was a star of German cinema who was fervently anti-Nazi. He moved to America with his jewish wife to create films to convince the US to join the war against the Axis.