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TIL a third of criminal convictions of women in the UK are for not paying for a TV Licence

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rR6Zw TIL after a Taliban fighter successfully shot down an American CH-47D Chinook, he bragged about it over his radio. Signals Intelligence was able to determine who had made the call and after only 2 days, an F-16, a C-130, and two Apache Gunships killed him and 5 others using their combined firepower.
ANbDw TIL: In 1899, "hot mess" first appeared in print to describe something in extreme confusion or disorder. Complaining that people believed everything they read in newspapers, the Journal of the International Association of Machinists declared, "the public is a hot mess."
wLAB1 TIL about Phossy Jaw, an industrial disease that essentially rotted matchstick workers' bones from the inside out.
W7QeL TIL that while each individual paying for their meal is called “going Dutch” in English, in Egypt it’s called “English style.” In Pakistan, Thailand and parts of Latin America, it’s “American style.” In Turkey, it’s “German style.” In Italy, it’s “Roman style.” In Iraq, it’s “Mosul style.”
e0VmE TIL All radio stations have a four-letter identification code. In a 1912 Conference, the United States was given the letters W, K, N, and A. ‘N’ and ‘A’ were given to military stations, Commercial Radio stations east of the Mississippi River used ‘W’, and west of the Mississippi ‘K’.