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TIL The Martin-Baker company is the World's largest ejection seat manufacturer, supplying seats for 93 air forces, World wide. They claim to have saved 7567 lives

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neJaW TIL that the Library of Congress is actively seeking volunteers to help transcribe 16,000 Pages of Suffragist Diaries, Letters, and Documents to create a searchable database where people can read original source documents.
VBV58 TIL that Bill Laimbeer, legendary NBA tough guy who was instrumental in the late 80’s Detroit Pistons being labeled the “Bad Boys” also played a recurring role as a Sleestak on the original Land of the Lost TV series.
5VXRP Today I Learned English Romanticism was born from a serious Germanomania that inspired Poets, Novelists, and Philosophers
Xxyj TIL the Onion was nearly sued out of existence by Janet Jackson for running an article titled “Dying Boy Gets Wish: To Pork Janet Jackson”
ANaL7 TIL that when you say a word many times over, and it stops sounding like a word, that is called 'semantic satiation.'