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TIL that in 1948, aviator Jacqueline Cochran flew future president Lyndon Johnson 1,000 miles to his emergency kidney stone removal

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oX1W TIL of Russia’s 2,000 female snipers in WWII including Lyudmila Pavlichenko who had 309 confirmed kills, 36 of which were enemy snipers
kLe5 TIL that because the concrete of the Hoover Dam was poured into individual, rectangular shaped sections–rather than with a single, continuous pour–the physical dam itself will survive up to 10,000 years and be one of the last remaining visible and recognizable monuments of humans on the planet.
nWkVP TIL that Founding Father Benjamin Franklin wrote an essay about farts.
W7Yo4 TIL That the TV shows, Magnum, PI and Murder She Wrote both take place in the same fictional universe.
mBLP TIL that almost half of Japan’s Millennials between 18-34 are virgin and some find fault in the rise of economic status of Japanese women.