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

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QN8op TIL that some US states, such as Massachusetts, Michigan, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina, still have laws that prohibit blasphemy to varying degrees. However, the First Amendment protects freedom of speech, rendering these laws obsolete and unenforceable.
xlg5 TIL JFK purchased 1200 Cuban cigars before signing the trade embargo 51 years ago
wLy1M TIL that there is a department store chain in Australia named "Target" that has a red bulls-eye as its logo and is in no way affiliated with the American company of the same name
neA1o TIL that a video of the moon landing ending in disaster and Nixon reading the "other speech" exists (as part of a project that illustrates the possibilities of deepfake technology)
LrZm TIL the calculator number limit of 10^99 is actually pretty large. There are only 10^80 atoms in the observable universe.