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TIL that the CIA once owned dummy corporation, “Air America,” that operated as a civilian airline but was used to conduct military operations.

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1axgX TIL British aristocrats often went broke after royal visits. Queen Elizabeth I spent her holydays at her titled noblemen's country estates. The problem was that Tudor monarchs didn’t just travel alone and hosts had to find housing, food and entertainment for over 300 people, often at short notice.
w78M TIL that Pakistan’s parliament is the only parliament in the world to be fuelled solely by solar power.
aNDo TIL Newton’s flaming laser sword is a philosophical razor that states anything that cannot be settled by experiment is not worthy of debating.
E1d7X TIL that Galileo was born in the same year that Michelangelo died, and died in the same year that Newton was born
EgVjP TIL until 2019, the Verve was forced to give up all their royalties and music credit rights for their 1997 hit song "Bitter Sweet Symphony" due to copyright dispute with ABKCO Studios head Allen Klein over the band's sampling of the Rolling Stone's "The Last Time" in their music.