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TIL almost half a million US households lack indoor plumbing

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KYbBG TIL Mark Hamill followed up Star Wars with the 1978 comedy Corvette Summer. He plays a high school student who befriends a sex worker and joins a crime ring while hitchhiking to Las Vegas to recover a stolen corvette. It's essentially the Dude, Where's My Car of the 1970s.
p8bP4 TIL a 64-year-old manager at a French defense manufacturer was gifted a ride as a passenger in a military jet but he failed to secure himself properly in the cockpit and at one point tried to to hold onto the ejector handle, accidentally activating it and ejecting himself mid-flight.
6dkZ TIL Much of Apple iCloud is hosted by Microsoft
VMWAB TIL that “snarge” is the term used by the FAA for the residue and feathers left on an aircraft after a bird collides with it
OoV8e TIL a New Jersey man was once charged $3,750 for a bottle of wine after the waitress recommended the one that was "thirty-seven fifty."