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TIL that the United States Air Force owns 4 Doomsday planes specifically designed for nuclear war, and one of them has a callsign named 'ORDER66'

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6EwX8 TIL that people scored higher in a mental agility test while wearing a lab coat that they believed was a doctor's coat. The effect was not there when they believed the same white coat was a painter's coat. The study showed that we embody associations we have with particular clothes.
Y78ov TIL that the city of Montreal is on an island
gL8W TIL Stanley Kubrick was asked not to depict room #217 (featured in the book) in The Shining, because future guests at the Lodge might be afraid to stay there. So a nonexistent room, #237, was substituted in the film.
VBKL4 TIL the Arbuckle Mountains in Oklahoma are the oldest formations between the Rocky and Appalachian Mountains, at 1.4B years old
6BMw TIL: 78% of NFL players and 60% of NBA players go bankrupt in the first 5 years.