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TIL if you eject from an aircraft using a Martin Baker ejection seat you join their Ejection Tie Club - receiving a tie and a pin

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wow4W TIL in the early 1990s Amsterdam airport came up with an ingenious design “to etch an image of a black house fly” to reduce spillage in men’s wall mounted urinals. The result: spillage was 80% reduced. Lesson learnt- If you give men a target, it turns out, they can’t help but aim at it.
4Qvb TIL that Disney created a short called The Sorcerer’s Apprentice to boost Mickey Mouse’s fading popularity. As production costs began to mount, they decided to include it as part of a feature film set to classical music. This became the classic Disney film, Fantasia.
ne4QW TIL The Soviet KGB fabricated evidence linking the Central Intelligence Agency to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and passed the material to unwitting conspiracy theorists in the United States, according to the Mitrokhin Archive based on KGB files brought to the West by a defector.
K1gJ TIL Dan Aykroyd has a documentary that is him smoking cigarettes and talking about UFOs for 83 minutes
nWwEb TIL The White House has a Chief Calligrapher. Job includes writing invitations to dinners, greetings, and proclamations. The position earns over $100k a year.