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TIL an airline once put 400 squirrels through a shredder

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nKRW TIL there’s a building in Toronto that has its windows coated with 24 karat gold leaf, worth over $1,000,000.
R7BdQ TIL of The Guardian Angels. A grouped formed in 1979 to combat violence in the NYC subway system. Trained in patrol & citizens arrest, members are told if other citizens' lives are endangered, they are allowed to do whatever is lawful and necessary. They can be spotted by their signature red beret.
wLLW1 Because most early rotary engines turned counterclockwise (from the front, clockwise from the pilot's view). The physics of rotating objects resulted in left turns being easier than right turns. That led to standard manoeuvres using left turns. And that resulted in the prime/most experienced pilot sitting with a view out of the left window, once airplanes grew large enough to have side-by-side pilots.
neB8W TIL that in 1975 A Clockwork Orange author Anthony Burgess wrote an early draft script for The Spy Who Loved Me which climaxed with James Bond using acupuncture to foil hippy terrorists
X6NR TIL that pistachios were dyed red to cover imperfections on the shells due to the harvesting methods when grown in the Middle East. But now 98% of pistachios are grown in California, which why you don’t see red pistachios anymore.