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TIL The F-22 Raptor’s engines are designed to allow standard maintenance using just six common tools available at commercial hardware stores

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grPa4 TIL that Antarctica used to be a rainforest
E1nlx TIL Arizona has kept their Iced Tea at the price of 99¢ a can since 1992. They've managed this by not spending money on advertisements.
kJZQ5 TIL of Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon or Bacon's Law where a chosen actor is connected to another actor via a film in which both actors appear: this is repeated to try to find the shortest path that leads to actor Kevin Bacon.
Ang4 TIL that famous American Sharpshooter Annie Oakley sued 55 newspapers (and won 54 out of 55) after they falsely reported she was a thief and drug addict.
NXVd6 TIL about Harland Fairweather, who died in April 2017, aged 97. He was survived by his mother, who died five months later at age 117.