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Lk5Jm TIL that tens of thousands of North Korean workers are estimated to be employed in Russian logging camps, where they reportedly have only two days of rest per year and face punishments for failures. Their salary is held in North Korean controlled accounts and most is kept by the regime.
NaeN TIL that during the Battle of Britain, German ace Adolf Galland was asked what his pilots needed to defeat the British. He replied “I should like an outfit of Spitfires for my squadron”; Galland had found that the British fighter was much more maneuverable than his own Bf 109 aircraft.
OG8o6 TIL Tumbleweed, though iconic in westerns, is not native to North America
JYOM8 TIL There are only 5 countries (the Bahamas, Belize, the Cayman Islands, Palau and the United States) in the world that use the Fahrenheit scale as the standard temperature measurement in everyday life.
5YGbQ TIL Kareem Abdul-Jabbar asked for $5k more than the $30k he was offered to be in Airplane! just so he could buy an Oriental rug he had his eye on.