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TIL dry cleaning is not dry at all. It still involves washing the clothes, but with a special liquid solvent instead of water

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1Q4V TIL the symbol for New Zealand’s Air Force is a Kiwi bird. Kiwis cannot fly.
lQaB TIL that when author, journalist, and LGBT activist Dan Savage began writing his advice column pertaining to homosexuality, he urged his editors to let him name it “Hey, Faggot!” so he could reclaim the hate word.
wL4rY TIL while the Icelandic airline Loftleiðir was only allowed to operate flights to and from Iceland, they managed to circumvent the rule by having their USA-continental Europe flights covered by two tickets: one for flying to Iceland, and the other for flying from Iceland to the mainland.
QaLE TIL that Ed O'Neill was so typecast while on Married with Children, that his scenes were removed from a non-comedy film after a test audience laughed when he was on the screen.
6E8R7 TIL in 1960, an Australian father won nearly $3 million (adjusted AU$) in the lottery, with his picture getting plastered all over the news. Shortly after, his 8-year-old son was kidnapped for ransom and eventually murdered. This changed anonymity laws for lottery winners in Australia forever.