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TIL That A Former Speaker Of The House Once Seriously Proposed Claiming The Moon In The Name Of America And Making It The 51st State

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JYJo4 TIL that “verklempt” is not a Yiddish word. It just sounds a lot like the Yiddish word that means the same thing - “farklempt”
Lk6r0 TIL that the United States Airforce maintains a fleet of Boeing E4-B “Doomsday” planes. They are capable of being airborne for a week, costs nearly $160,000 per hour for the Air Force to operate, and have a 5 mile long trailing wire antenna to communicate with nuclear subs.
GYWjg TIL the dog name Fido was popularized by Abraham Lincoln’s good boy.
XEVrP TIL that scientists have developed a solution to help plants grow in otherwise infertile too salty soils
N7rnQ TIL Handwriting experts suggest Czar Alexander I of Russia, who defeated Napoleon, faked his own death and reinvented himself as the monk Fyodor Kuzmich, who had noble manners, spoke several languages, and claimed to have forgotten his past.