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yQEbw TIL only 3 countries use heavy/strategic bomber aircraft today: Russia, USA, and China.
XEErD TIL of the 115 cases reviewed with LexisNexis and newspaper sources, Sylvia Browne, the famous psychic, was wrong in twenty-five, and the remaining ninety either have no available details outside of the transcript or the crime is unsolved, leaving no way to confirm Browne’s claims
69MBX TIL that a 2019 Union College study found that joining a fraternity in college lowered a student's GPA by 0.25 points, but also increased their future income by 36%.
ggxD TIL Freakonomics sent boneless cat corpses to 3 different pet crematoriums, only to receive back 3 different sets of ashes. The only issue is that ashes are the remnants of bones - everything else burns away.
PolO TIL Irene Triplett – the 86-year-old daughter of a Civil War veteran – collects $73.13 each month from her father’s military pension