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TIL that a Cuban military pilot defected to the US in a MIG-23, and later piloted a Cessna BACK to Cuba to exfiltrate his wife and children.

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gMvvb TIL Nestlé pays $524 yearly on an expired permit to pump and bottle about 30 million gallons of water from California, even during droughts. To explain this, a supervisor claimed that the Forest Service didn't have the money for a proper review of the permit; he later became a consultant for Nestlé.
b9LAZ TIL BAPE's name is supposed to be a dig at their customers. It means "A Bathing Ape in Lukewarm Water" - the lukewarm water implies that someone's been bathing too long and the water got cold, referencing the lazy opulence of the brand's customers.
mxP9x TIL Admiral J.Stockdale was shot down in Vietnam and held prisoner for 7,5 years, 4 of them in solitary. He endured captivity by drawing inspiration from Epictetus, a stoic and former slave who who shrugged off even his own state of slavery as a natural inconvenience that should not concern him
rRV7y TIL that hundreds of millions of years ago, giant 24 foot mushrooms were more popular before trees were as common as they are today. They are spires of fungus called “prototaxites”.
eN4J TIL of Alamjan Nematilaev who in 2003, aged 7, went to a hospital after movements were detected in his enlarged abdomen. An operation intended to remove a cyst uncovered the fetus of Alamjan’s identical twin brother, which had lived as a parasitic growth inside the boy throughout his entire life.