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TIL The GPS (Global Positioning System) is owned by the U.S. Government and is operated by the U.S. Space Force.

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8X9P TIL 2013 was the first year without a Loch Ness Monster sighting since 1933
0wBdR TIL in the ‘30s Soichi Sakamoto, 6th grade teacher in Maui, developed H.I. interval training for competitive swimming. Soichi had no experience as a swimmer & coach. He used irrigation ditches to train. A number of his pupils medaled in the Olympics, and many of his training methods are used today.
V59Q TIL Liam Neeson shot The Grey in -20 degree temperatures. When his face is beet red, it’s not because he’s wearing makeup.
Ooor6 A hulking Arleigh Burke-class destroyer might typically burn a minimum of about 24 barrels (1,000 gallons) of fuel per hour, but this figure conceals so many factors and variables that the Navy doesn't really use it the way we use "miles per gallon."
aKeN TIL Communists and Socialists who joined the Nazi Party were called ‘Beefsteak Nazis’ and in the 1930’s it was estimated that they made up to 70% of new recruits to the SA paramilitary.