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

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ogY7 TIL that in World War 2 Germany captured France with a loss of only 27,000 soldiers. Germany lost over 143,000 alone at the battle of Verdun in France during World War One several decades earlier.
DKWD TIL that in 2010 the DOD purchased and destroyed every first edition copy of Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffers book “Operation Dark Heart” (at a tax payer cost of $47,000), which claimed the Defense Intelligence Agency failed to evaluate intelligence on the 9/11 hijackers, allowing the attacks to occur.
Lk8BZ TIL The United States Supreme Court has declared tomatoes are legally vegetables, not fruit. (Nix v. Hedden, 1893)
NXG8b TIL that when former White House press secretary James Brady died in 2014, his death was ruled a homicide because it was ultimately caused by a gunshot wound he sustained in 1981, during the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan
Z8OVQ TIL that German cars have an option to turn parking lights on only on one side (towards the road) to make parking safer on narrow European streets in the dark whilst consuming half the power.