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TIL that there was a legal battle between World Wide Fund for Nature and World Wrestling Federation over the use of the acronym WWF.

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AD66l TIL about CRAF, the Civil Reserve Air Fleet. It requires some airlines to reserve a portion of their fleet for military deployments that are on-call & ready within 24-48hrs, should demand exceed military resources. Lately, it is one of the reasons why the govt. will continue bail out the airlines.
XEvDr TIL: Theres an extremely rare condition humans can have called Hematidrosis which causes a person to sweat blood, normally under extreme physical or emotional stress.
b6EjN TIL in addition to the musical "Chess," Benny Anderssen and Björn Ulvaeus of ABBA wrote a musical called "Kristina från Duvemåla," a story of a young Swedish family emigrating to the United States in the mid 1800s (based on the Swedish novels "The Emigrants" by Vilhelm Moberg)
wLEaE TIL that the US Pentagon has the high number of 284 toilets, which is twice as much as the actual needs for the staff. The Pentagon avoids talking about this fact because it is due to the racial segregation laws in force in Virginia during the construction of the building, between 1941 and 1943.
R5wd9 TIL About the day various objects were thrown by fans onto the pitch at an Asian Champions League game in Iran in 2012, including a hand grenade. Soccer player unknowingly threw it off the field just before it blew up.