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Today I learned that UPS flew passenger flights in the 1990s.

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e0wYJ TIL actor/voice actor that voiced Skeletor, Alan Oppenheimer, has voiced many characters including Mighty Mouse, Falcor from The Neverending Story, and Thundarr the Barbarian. He's also related to Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the nuclear bomb.
vPb6j TIL the first use of DNA in a criminal investigation ended up exonerating the suspect who made a false confession to two murders
glj9 TIL the Japanese killed more innocent people during WW2 (25,000,000+) than Hiroshima+Nagasaki and The Holocaust (246,000+11,000,000) COMBINED!
loOr5 TIL people were skeptical of reinforced concrete until the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, where the few concrete buildings survived the quake and fire remarkably. Now we produce about 7.5 billion cubic meters of concrete worldwide every year.
awdNA TIL that Oak Bluffs on the island of Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, has been a traditional summer destination to upper class African-Americans for over a century. Though many had lived and worked in the area as early as the 1600s, by the late 1800s it had developed into an exclusive resort town.