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TIL that an American pilot was decorated with one of Germany’s highest medals for dropping miniature parachutes with candy during Berlin Airlift

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KMrw TIL Brazil prisons offer their prisoners the chance to reduce their prison sentence by four days (up to 48 days/year) for every book they read and write a report on
E1YQP TIL In 1953, after the shooting ended in the Korean War, the Americans dropped leaflets offering $100,000 to any North Korean pilot who landed a MiG-15 in South Korea. A defector arrived soon after and the plane was impounded and meticulously examined. Chuck Yeager was among the first to fly it.
mx7kE TIL: Coney Island hasn't been an Island since the 1930s. Land fill efforts turned the once Island into a peninsula.
69oaY TIL that legendary race driver Ken Miles -- played by Christian Bale in "Ford vs. Ferrari" -- designed a race track, but it was so dangerous it closed after only 7 races. During the last meet in December 1957, two drivers were killed and another lost a leg.
OoWBY TIL John Candy was paid only $414 for his role in Home Alone. He was only available for 1 day, and his scenes took 23 hours to shoot.