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TIL about Miles Copeland Jr., a former jazz trumpeter whose work as a CIA officer inspired the names of his sons' music ventures: Miles III started a record label, International Record Syndicate (IRS); Ian, a talent agency, Frontier Booking International (FBI); and Stewart, a drummer, The Police.

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x65mD TIL that Jacksonville, Florida is the largest city by area in the continental United States at 875 square miles and was named after General Andrew Jackson who never even visited Jacksonville ever
D1bwY TIL The Last man sentenced to death in the UK had this guilty verdict overturned and squashed after 19 years in jail and 40 years appealing his sentence. He was 19 years of age when he was sentenced to death and 58 years of age when his conviction was overturned and his innocence recognized.
KOV7G TIL about ATLAS-I, aka Trestle, the world's largest structure made entirely of wood, glue laminate, wooden bolts/nuts and sufficient to support a fully loaded B-52 bomber (for elevated EMP testing) 1,000 ft long, 125 ft (about 12 stories) tall, and constructed of 6.5 million board-feet of lumber.
aOdM TIL Robert Ford, the “coward” who shot Jesse James in the back of the head, was afterwards charged with murder, sentenced to hang, and pardoned. All in the same day.
e08kL TIL Not only do bats make high-pitched sounds for echolocation, many bat species also sing. A team of scientists that analyzed one species’ song translated it as a sequence that opens with a hello, then a gender identification, then some geographic information, & then a "let's talk" section.