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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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EJXP TIL that in the late 1600s London was plagued by an attacker who would spank his victims with a rod and shout “Spanko!” before running away
vPBYR TIL that in the 2013 DVD and Blu-ray complete series of the show Breaking Bad, there is an alternate ending that features Bryan Cranston in bed with his Malcolm In The Middle co-star Jane Kaczmarek playing their characters Hal and Lois, in a nod to the final scene from the show Newhart.
V5p4 TIL Pablo Escobar once started a fire with $2 million because his daughter was cold.
8eXOV TIL that in the late 1990s a revolutionary guerrilla group in Myanmar called God’s Army was founded and led by two chain smoking 9 year-old twin brothers.
kJPJ1 TIL the two women of the Judgment of Solomon, the story from the Bible in which King Solomon orders a baby of disputed motherhood to be cut in half and shared between the two, were prostitutes.