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TIL in 1866, the State of Mississippi spent more than half its yearly budget providing Civil War veterans with prosthetics

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rRgv0 TIL of Beate Uhse, a stunt pilot and one of a handful of woman who flew in the Luftwaffe. She landed in a besieged Berlin to rescue her infant son, escaping by flying extremely low, narrowly evading flak and Allied aircraft. After the war, she created a chain of sex shops and became a millionaire.
6EOGw TIL that air conditioning caused various shifts in demography, notably that of the USA starting from the 1970s. Until 1970, the birth rate in the spring was lower than during the other seasons, but the introduction of air conditioning leveled out this difference at the end of the 20th century
VMj8m TIL that Captain James Cook never actually held the rank of captain, but in 1775 was promoted to the higher rank of post-captain.
YNYZ TIL that In 2015, Facebook canceled Harvard student’s internship after he highlighted a massive privacy issue.
plWN TIL on the day of his death, “Heath Ledger” was understandably the number 1 search on Google. Number 2 was “Keith Ledger”.