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TIL That for ever 1 hour of flight time, the F-22 Raptor requires 30 hours of maintenance, and costs $44,000 per flight hour.

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loGBa TIL Annually around 40 million Olive Ridley hatchlings are born in Odisha coast of India and they are monitored around the year from adults laying eggs to birth. Fishing and commercial activities are banned around particular coast. One of the most successful conservation story.
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xL80 TIL It costs $25,000 for a mountaineer to buy a single permit to climb Mt. Everest.
8apmK TIL that in 1937 a newspaper published a full-page map predicting Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor
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