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TIL one of the early directors of the Veterans Bureau stole over $2 million dollars from it, under President Warren G. Harding. Harding had to be physically stopped from strangling Forbes when the corruption came to light.

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1voD TIL wikipedia has a list of aircraft, aviators or air passengers who have disappeared in flight, since 1856, for reasons that have never been definitely determined.
Y1xr TIL that the Marines in Aliens were asked to read Robert A. Heinlein’s novel Starship Troopers and undergo military training before the shoot.
vPYDL TIL : Australia is wider than the moon. The moon sits at 3400km in diameter, while Australia’s diameter from east to west is almost 4000km.
B6AD TIL Mr. Snuffleupagus met the human cast of Sesame Street due to a string of high-profile pedophilia cases. The writers felt by having the adults refuse to believe Big Bird, they were scaring children into thinking their parents would not believe them if they had been sexually abused.
dD507 TIL that Max Martin, a Swedish songwriter and producer, is second only to Paul McCartney for number-one hit singles ever written