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TIL that aircraft engines aren’t always bought by airlines, but are rented by the hour.

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4k4Ob TIL Walt received a custom-made Oscar statuette for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The Honorary Award consisted of one standard Oscar statuette, standing above seven other miniature ones- representing each of the dwarf- placed on a stepped, 20-inch-long base.
1aGdD TIL that male rhesus macaque monkeys will pay to look at pictures of female rhesus macaques' bottoms.
QJKgM TIL that Finland's reindeer herders wanted to reduce the 4,000 annual reindeer road deaths. They painted antlers in fluorescent colors, hung reflectors around necks, and used movable traffic signs. This failed, so they tried a mobile app for drivers to register sightings and get reindeer warnings.
N7VD6 TIL of the Murray Gell-Man Amnesia Effect, i.e., we give newspapers the benefit of the doubt even after we catch them being inaccurate on subjects we know about. (Term was coined by Michael Crichton in "Why Speculate?")
5V7Pr TIL A shipyard worker set a fire aboard a nuclear submarine, causing $450M worth of damage because he was suffering from an anxiety attack and had no vacation or sick leave remaining. He was sentenced to 17 years in federal prison and ordered to pay $400 million in restitution.