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TIL a man bought all the spare B-2 windshields and used them in his daughter’s tree house. The USAF had to buy them back to replace a damaged Spirit windshield.

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ZpwMo TIL that after releasing two albums that flopped, Neil Young was sued by his label, Geffen Records, for releasing music with so little commercial appeal that it was "unrepresentative" of himself. After the lawsuit, he released two more albums on the same label, leading to lowest sales in his career.
egE TIL The Ghostbusters went up against C'thulu and the Necronomicon.
1aPgX TIL that long-beaked echidnas have four-headed penises and are known as monotremes, meaning egg laying mammals. This perhaps hints at early mammalian evolution from reptiles. These guys are sadly critically endangered owing to habitat loss!
VBkL8 TIL about the porrón, a Spanish pitcher used to drink communally by pouring wine or other drinks into your mouth from a distance, much like a watering can for flowers
VJYp TIL: Ragnarok, the Norse end of the world, is happening in a week (Feb. 22nd)