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TIL When the B-52 Bomber retires from the US Air Force it will have served for over 100 years.

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A6Dx TIL that Dr. Seuss wrote The Cat in the Hat to help combat illiteracy. 348 words were identified as being important to first-graders, which he was asked to narrow down to 250. Nine months later, Seuss used 236 of them to complete The Cat in the Hat
b9kx0 TIL that New Zealand was home to a 12-foot-tall species of bird known as the "giant moa." They were wiped around 1500 AD after settlers found the island and hunted them for food.
jNolN TIL there is an object in the asteroid belt named after Moomintroll, the illustrated character created by Swedish-speaking Finnish illustrator Tove Jansson.
xYok TIL 95% of the body’s “happiness hormone, serotonin, is found in the bowels.
QOP6 TIL that Santa Claus was issued a pilot’s licence from the United States government in 1927