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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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vPKVL TIL of John Fryer who, as Dr. Anonymous, addressed the APA in a clown tuxedo and Nixon mask... and changed the world.
yQd8v TIL about "Bald–Hairy" a Russian political joke based on the observation that the nation's presidents consistently alternate hair types (ie Lenin was bald, Stalin had hair, Khruschev was bald, Brezhnev had hair.)
6EDk8 TIL William Daniels (Mr. Feeny) has been married to his wife, Bonnie Bartlett, for going on 70 years.
5xA9 TIL a survivor from the 2011 Norway attacks by Anders Breivik was arrested and detained for 17 hours because “he did not react to the carnage with the same tears and hysteria as most of the other survivors”.
yQRWp TIL There was no epidemic of suicides in the wake of the Stock Market Crash of 1929.