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TIL that the reason we refer to people as redheads instead of more accurately as “orangeheads” is because both the fruit and the word to describe its color doesn’t enter the English language until the 1300’s.

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6J97 TIL that the call sign “Air Force One” was created in 1954 to avoid confusion, after an incident where a commercial flight and President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s plane carried the same number in the same airspace.
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