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TIL NATO has aviation units that are collectively owned, funded, and operated by the nations in the alliance. No single nation owns these aircraft

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e0Xbk TIL that when Truman told Stalin about the Manhattan project in July of 1945, Stalin displayed little reaction, since Stalin had known about the project for almost 4 years before Truman, and he arguably knew more about it than Truman himself did.
GYdVj TIL Charles Darwin was the first person known to put wheels on an office chair. He liked being able to roll round his office so he could study different specimens more quickly.
xr5 TIL part of Pink Floyd’s song “Keep Talking” came from Stephen Hawking’s quote: For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk….
Y7vGZ TIL that killer whales are part of the oceanic dolphins family Delphinidae, which is part of the toothed whale sub-order Odontoceti. Basically, orcas are dolphins and dolphins are whales.
N7RDJ TIL the name of 1997 film "Gattaca" is based on the letters G, A, T, and C, which stand for guanine, adenine, thymine, and cytosine, the four nucleobases of DNA.