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xVvko TIL that, due to a pilot shortage, Chinese airlines are paying airline pilots $300k a year, tax free
QNbyE TIL: That Adele’s first release was as a 17-year-old featured vocalist on a forgotten 2006 12” techno track called “Be Divine” by Ricsta, released as a vinyl 12” by Stirfried Trax. It was Ricsta’s only record.
kjxe TIL that during WWII A. Wald proposed the seemingly illogical idea of reinforcing the undamaged areas of US bomber and not the damaged areas. The holes represented areas where a bomber could take hits and still return home whereas the areas untouched, if hit, would cause the plane to be lost.
GZwE TIL that in the book version of Stephen King’s “It”, after the six kids (who are the age of 11) defeat Pennywise, they all decide to have sex with Beverly (the one girl out of the six) in the sewer, by her invitation.
eL66 TIL McDonald’s tried to sue a man legally named Ronald McDonald for running his family restaurant by the same name in 1956. The real Ronald won.