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TIL The second largest air force in the world is the U.S. Navy.

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7rb9P TIL a sinkhole at the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, Kentucky swallowed eight Corvettes, causing millions of dollars worth of damage
DQ8jP TIL 17-year-old female pitcher Jackie Mitchell struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig in succession during an exhibition match. As a consequence, the baseball commisioner terminated her contract and Ruth later trash talked about women in baseball to a newspaper.
PkkV TIL when Yao Ming played his first game in Miami, the Heat promoted the game by passing out 8,000 fortune cookies. Yao wasn’t offended because he had never seen a fortune cookie, and assumed it was an American invention
VM604 TIL that of the 21 people executed for witchcraft in Iceland, 20 of them where male and only one was a woman.
lw0a TIL Brian May’s dad helped him build his famous guitar, but was upset when Brian abandoned his PhD program to join Queen. Brian went on to write “We Will Rock You”, “Fat Bottomed Girls"—and eventually "A Survey of Radial Velocities in the Zodiacal Dust Cloud”, the thesis he finished 36 years later.