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TIL Superman is Jewish

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Xwwr TIL Nick Kroll’s dad, Jules B. Kroll, has a net worth of $1.5 billion, as the founder of Kroll, Inc. In 1972, Kroll, Inc was the largest risk consulting and corporate investigations firm. It was considered by many insiders to be the inventor of modern corporate investigation.
yaPv TIL that allowing her flight attendants to wear bikinis to work has made an airline CEO in Vietnam that country’s first female billionaire
1aJ1V TIL the SR-71 Blackbird's original name was the RS-71, but Lyndon Johnson messed up during the announcement and called it the SR-71 and the name stuck
a8dL0 TIL that Because American and British generals insisted The French unit that helped librate Paris would be all white, a white french unit had to be shipped in from Morocco, and was supplemented with soldier from Spain and Portugal. Making it all white but not all French.
VMe6D TIL that the thinking--i.e. non-physical activity--involved in mentally rigorous activities such as chess can require so much of the body's energy that individuals can burn hundreds of calories per hour engaging in them.