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TIL about CRAF, the Civil Reserve Air Fleet. It requires some airlines to reserve a portion of their fleet for military deployments that are on-call & ready within 24-48hrs, should demand exceed military resources. Lately, it is one of the reasons why the govt. will continue bail out the airlines.

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VBg00 TIL about Mystery Date, a board game from Milton Bradley released in 1965 and reissued in 1970, 1999, and 2005. In the 1999 version of the game, future Captain America actor Chris Evans plays the role of Tyler, the "beach" date.
b6X6Q TIL that some US spy satellites are named after actresses. Before a presentation to President Reagan, the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) worried about mentioning projects codenamed URSULA, RAQUEL, and FARRAH. Reagan said "Those are friends of mine! I love those names!" NRO kept the names.
X09vR TIL the first use of the word "hashish" is in a pamphlet published in Cairo in 1123 CE, calling Nizari Muslims "hashish-eaters". The cult of Nizari militants which arose after the fall of the Fatimid Caliphate is known as the Order of Assassins—a corruption of hashishin, Arabic for "hashish-smoker."
dDeM8 TIL: In some US states, public urination is enough to get you onto the sex offender registry. Furthermore, 25% of of registrants are juveniles/minors, and children as young as 9 have been placed on the list.
KaAE TIL there is a resident in MIT’s Random Hall called “The Milk” that is an expired carton of milk coming up on 22 years past its expiration date