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TIL: There is a Hall and Oates hotline you can call to listen to some of their greatest hits

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M7V9W TIL how dangerous it was to serve in the US Air Force in Europe in WW2. Just the US 8th Air Force alone lost 26,000 KIA out of a total strength of 200,000. Comparatively the Marine Corps suffered just under 20,000 KIA while having 50,000 more men deployed.
awleM TIL Carlos Rodriguez is known as 'The man without a brain'. He survived a car accident while on drugs and made a full recovery with all of his mental abilities and memories intact except for missing an astonishingly large portion of his brain and skull.
rV8e TIL that in Australia you can be charged with supplying drugs based purely on text messages. No need for the police to see drugs / money change hands or find drugs on either person.
epDW6 Today I Learned that the moon distances itself from the Earth by about 3,78 cm(1.49 inches) every year.
jNJQE TIL in Dunkirk, Hans Zimmer employed the Shepard Tone, an auditory illusion that seemingly ascend or descend in pitch, and sampled the ticking sound of Chris Nolan’s pocket watch, to intensify tension throughout the film.