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TIL Badass Marine pilot Lt. Col. Art Nalls bought a Harrier jet so he can keep flying after retirement and it is the only Harrier maintained and flown by civilians.

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Wkrn9 TIL Johnny Bravo is extremely popular in India, to the point that a TV movie "Johnny Bravo Goes to Bollywood" was produced in 2011, seven years after the show ended.
Eg1Ro TIL Mariano Marcos (the father of former Philippines dictator Ferdinand Marcos and grandfather of president-elect Bongbong Marcos), was executed by guerillas for alleged collaboration with the Japanese. His hands were tied to water buffaloes who riped his body apart alive in different directions.
5V91k TIL that, in China, demand for horror is about 95% less than the global average due to strict censorship laws against the supernatural and superstition
WVJo TIL There’s a gang of jewel thieves called the Pink Panthers. It’s believed they’ve stolen $Billions. Attention to detail is their reason for success. They once painted a bench across from a jewelry store before a robbery, so people wouldn’t sit on the bench (fresh paint) and see them mid-robbery.
epVen TIL the FDIC is a US government corporation created in 1933 that guarantees all customer deposits at US banks are protected in the event of a bank run or failure