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TIL That the two largest air forces in the world both belong to the United States 1. USAF 2. US Navy

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eelL TIL that Gordon Ramsay was so impressed with In N Out, after he finished his meal he went through the drive thru to take some home
R5ZNa TIL that autorevolvers exist. A marriage of revolvers and semi-auto pistols that use both a cylinder and recoil to recock the hammer. Examples include the Landstad and Mateba.
RxZw TIL Alexandra David-Neel disguised herself as a beggar and crossed a frozen, 19,000ft mtn pass in winter to get into Lhasa, witnessed murders and battles, had to barter for passage with warlords, crossed Mongolia and the Gobi desert, became incredibly ill, and boiled her boots to avoid starvation
1abE7 TIL mosquitos may have killed HALF the people who EVER lived, which would make them our deadliest predator by far
nK8o TIL that Lance Armstrong owns a coffee shop called Juan Pelota Cafe. Juan is a homophone for “one” and “pelota” is Spanish for ball.