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TIL The lead prosecutor of Sirhan Sirhan was Lynn "Buck" Compton, who was depicted as one of the major roles in the 1992 book Band of Brothers and the 2001 HBO miniseries of the same name for his heroism in World War II

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MeypV TIL "After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, 365" USAF B-52 Stratofortress heavy bombers "were destroyed under the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty. The aircraft were stripped of usable parts, chopped into five pieces with a 13,000 pound steel blade and sold for scrap at 12 cents per pound."
neeMd Short answer: No, but you’re getting veeeeeeery sleepy
rxao TIL that in Brazil there is a football field located exactly on the equator so each team defends one hemisphere
0l4v TIL a butt load is an actual unit of measurement, equal to two hogsheads.
8aWV8 TIL N.Machiavelli, fired from his job, subjected to torture and exiled in his farm after the fall of the republic, would return from the fields at dusk and put on a diplomat's formal attire just to make himself feel better while he was studying alone. At around this time he wrote "the prince"