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TIL: Most people can legally buy a personal commercial airplane such as a Boeing 737 as long as they can afford to pay 10s to 100s of millions of dollars for one.

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9Y0LD TIL that before he died, FDR proposed a "Second Bill of Rights," which included the right to food, housing, clothing, education, medical care, and recreation. He considered this vital to American freedom and security.
QWK9 TIL in WWII a woman-only Soviet bomber regiment were nicknamed the “Night Witches” by German soldiers. For a successful bombing run, the Witches would cut the engine of their archaic and noisy aircraft. Gliding in, they would release their bombs before the enemy even knew they were there.
gMMpW A circumhorizontal arc often called a fire rainbow, is an optical phenomenon in which an ice halo forms by hexagonal, plate-shaped ice crystals in high-level cirrus clouds. The halo is so large that the arc appears parallel to the horizon, hence the name. When the sun is very high in the sky, sunlight entering flat, hexagon-shaped ice crystals get split into individual colours just like in a prism.
WkOYX TIL The version of the song “Po Lazarus” used in the movie O Brother, Where Art Thou? was an actual recording of prisoners singing at Mississippi State Penitentiary in 1959
QRvL TIL Hulk Hogan was offered to endorse a grill, but missed his agent’s phone call due to picking up his kids. George Foreman took the deal, and has earned close to $200 million ever since.