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TIL that Steve Jobs would lease the same model of Mercedes every six months so he wouldn't have to put license plates on his car

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GAQ0J TIL the longest continuous flight in history wasn't at all what I expected. Not some ultra rich guy in a luxury aircraft refuelling mid-air. Not some government's flying fortress hiding sensitive technology and/or gathering intel. Nope just two guys in a tiny Cessna promoting a casino.
p8Yde It's not that they can't. They just don't need to, says Mike Murray, a veterinarian at the Monterey Bay Aquarium in California. Birds have the anatomical and physical ability to pass gas, he explains, "but if I saw gas in a bird's gastrointestinal tract on an x-ray, I'd suspect that something abnormal was going on in there."
D1pnv TIL that Before the Civil War, uniforms were custom-sewn. Such a massive number of people had to be outfitted that uniforms needed to be mass produced. Soldiers were put into subtypes: large, medium, and small—classifications that eventually found their way to civilian clothing.
99PM TIL of “Operation Wrath of God”, where Israel responded to the 1972 Munich massacre by having the Mossad hunt down and assassinate anyone they believed was involved over the course of more than 20 years.
bL64 TIL that President Johnson, out of respect for his assassinated predecessor, John F. Kennedy, used the Oval Office only as a formal setting with visitors and continued to do most of his work in his vice presidential suite located in the Old Executive Office Building