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TIL the world’s first licensed armless pilot is also the first armless black-belt.

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MepQb TIL about the Contingency Fund for Foreign Intercourse – the earliest known black budget of the USA
nWmbP TIL in 2004, Linda Ronstadt was booted and banned from the Aladdin hotel for dedicating a song to Michael Moore in support of his documentary, "Fahrenheit 9/11." Along with this, bedlam began and Ronstadt was immediately booted, not allowed to return to her suite.
OGab4 TIL that a group of four serial killers calling themselves the “Death Angels” were convicted of murdering at least 15 people and may have murdered over 70 people in the Bay Area in the mid 70s.
neOeo TIL about The Roaring Lion, a famous photograph of Winston Churchill in which the photographer intentionally got Churchill to scowl by snatching his cigar right out of his hand.
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