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TIL the US Department of Defense spent $486 million on 20 planes for the Afghan Air Force which flew a total of 234 hours before being sold as scrap for $32,000.

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N5R1 TIL that a black police officer faced charges for not investigating racial taunts against himself.
KO4BQ TIL 'Nothing But Gingerbread Left' is a story about a song, designed to damage the Nazi war effort. It was so catchy that anybody who heard it could think of nothing else. It impacted German morale. The story ends with Hitler unable to deliver a speech because of the song in his head.
worK8 TIL the US Navy has a Marine Mammal Program which trains bottlenose dolphins and California sea lions to detect, locate, mark and recover objects in harbors, coastal areas, and at depth in the open sea.
eBab TIL the fear of palindromes is aibohphobia
J1wYQ TIL: That in the 1700's, getting called a 'Beard-Splitter' meant that you had sex with a lot of women.