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TIL: In Addition To Being A Fantastic Actor, James Earl Jones is Also a Former Army Ranger

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MEaV TIL Dwight D. Eisenhower said “The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants…It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals…We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people.”
dwZQ TIL that the Briggs & Stratton Flyer was the least expensive car ever manufactured, selling for about $125 in 1922.
N8Y1 TIL that pre-columbian population of the Americas is estimated to have been 50-100 million people. 90% of the indigenous population died from diseases imported by europeans, most of which got infected and died without direct contact - fuelling the legend of an empty continent ready to be seized
ZpAKv TIL that black pepper stops bleeding. I cut the underside of my nose shaving and a styptic pencil wouldn’t work. I dampened a pepper towel and covered in black pepper and pressed for 5 minutes. Stopped it entirely.
E1n5d TIL, bud light sent a cease and desist letter to a small brewer who named a beer "Dilly,Dilly". The C&D letter was written on a scroll and announced by a town cryer.