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TIL the U.S. Air Force is the world's largest air force, while the U.S. Navy is the world's second largest air force

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R5Lx6 TIL that at almost 90 years old, musician/A&M Records co-founder Herb Alpert still performs live.
OBlg TIL that the National Review, a leading conservative / republican publication, advocated for marijuana legalization in its cover article … in 1972.
OoABe TIL that natural evolution did not create a chicken that lays so many unfertilized eggs. Human engineering created such chickens. You could call the process "human-caused evolution", "artificial selection", or "selective breeding".
4n86 TIL C.S. Lewis after being raised in a Christian family, became an atheist at 15, and later became a Christian again after a long discussion with J.R.R Tolkien and Hugo Dyson. He wrote about this in his book Surprised by Joy.
P1ZWg TIL about Roland the Farter, a medieval flatulist in 12th Century England. Each Christmas, he was obliged to perform "saltum, siffletum, pettum" (a simultaneous jump, whistle, and fart) at King Henry II’s court. He was given 110 acres in Suffolk for his services.