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TIL Hooters ran an airline for 3 years

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xrgD TIL that Debra Oberlin, a former president of a defunct chapter of Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD), was arrested for drunk driving.
0wKJM TIL the University of Southern California's Spirit of Troy is the only collegiate band to have two platinum records. They have performed at the Oscars, the Grammys, on Fleetwood Mac's "Tusk", for five U.S. Presidents, and at the fall of the Berlin Wall.
p868Z TIL that as a colonel in the US Army, Theodore Roosevelt drafted a letter to the Army Headquarters to appeal for his disease-stricken corps to be withdrawn from Cuba. The administration was outraged, but complied after the letter had leaked to the press and turned public opinion.
VvZG TIL that baby tiger sharks fight each other in the womb, with the largest embryo eating all but one of its siblings.
oB0ME TIL that it's impossible to program truly random sequences, due to all software being completely deterministic, which results in all pseudorandom sequences ultimately being recursive