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TIL The previous United Airlines CEO was payed out $37 million after quitting amid a corruption investigation

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dDwrQ TIL Though they have ancient origins the modern western popularity of earth shelters was driven by the 1973 Oil Crisis and back-to-the-land movement. However the most earth shelters are in Northern China, where approximately 10 million people living underground.
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87w4 TIL When George Lucas was filming the Sandcrawler (in A New Hope) in Tunisia, the Tunisian government asked him to move it away from the Libyan border after Libya threatened military action, thinking it was a large war vehicle.
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7LM TIL much of what we know about pirates comes from a single primary source with questionable reliability.