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VB5aQ TIL an analysis found it took students 43 hours & adults 94 hours (on avg) for two acquaintances to turn into casual friends. Students needed 57 hours to transition from casual friends to friends; adults 164 hours. For students, friends became good/best friends after 119 hours; adults about 219 hrs.
mx0RP TIL US Army dentist Ben L. Salomon was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for providing a rear-guard action during the Battle of Saipan. His body was found laying on his machine gun with 98 Japanese soldiers in front of him and 76 bullet wounds (and almost as many bayonet wounds) in him.
VBVrm TIL a week before Eminem's album The Eminem Show (2002) was released, it was the second-most played CD on computers, the highest ranking ever for an unreleased title.
Z8W54 TIL a bruin bear was found on a ledge of a California bridge. Volunteers strung a net under the bear; officials shot it with a tranquilizer dart, nudged it with a pole onto the net, lowered it to the ground & steered it into the wild. The bridge where the bear was found is called "Rainbow Bridge."
v19YB TIL Despite the MCAS system on 737 MAX causing crashes in the simulator Boeing hid the MCAS problems from the FAA to avoid any additional costs and declined "stupid" requests for pilot training maintaining it was not needed. Boeing promptly blamed the pilots when the MCAS failed and they crashed.