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TIL that if there are 23 people in a room, there is 50% probability that two share the same birthday. If there are 70 people in the room, the probability jumps to 99.9%

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pa7A TIL that Israel attempted to bomb American and British civilians in Egypt and blame it on the Muslim Brotherhood in order to destabilize and occupy the country. Israel denied the entire affair for 51 years, but then awarded the Israeli participants in 2005.
QydX TIL Harrison Ford has used his helicopter to come to the rescue of real-world hikers in distress once by saving a woman on top of an Idaho mountain and once by joining a search and rescue mission for a 13-year-old Boy Scout lost in the woods.
jvdM TIL that there is such thing as False Awakening where you think that you have awoken from a dream and proceed with your daily life but you are actually still dreaming
KOWPE TIL about Mike Warnke: An evangelical celebrity claiming to be a former satanist who sacrificed children and engaged in ritual orgies before finding Christ. It was revealed he made the whole story up and was blacklisted from megachurches for not actually sacrificing babies.
AD66l TIL about CRAF, the Civil Reserve Air Fleet. It requires some airlines to reserve a portion of their fleet for military deployments that are on-call & ready within 24-48hrs, should demand exceed military resources. Lately, it is one of the reasons why the govt. will continue bail out the airlines.