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TIL the character Rambo was named after an apple.

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VQ44 TIL George Lucas allowed the band members of ‘N SYNC to make a cameo appearance in Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones in order to appease his daughters. The footage was then cut out of the final version of the film.
BQor TIL there is a runway where you roll your airplane off a cliff and drop until you have enough airspeed to fly
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nWNwo TIL The Fairey Swordfish biplane was considered out of date by 1939 but was effective throughout WW2. Swordfish sunk more enemy tonnage than any other plane, sunk numerous U-boats, disabled the Bismarck, and remained in use into 1945.
J4aj TIL that in 1939, 20,000 people attended a Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden.