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TIL millionaire Michael O'Leary, CEO of airline Ryanair, has his own taxicab company with just one cab so he can legally use the bus lanes and avoid traffic jams

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4PWJ TIL that “to train each Apache pilot from scratch cost £3 million. It took six months just to learn how to fly it, another six to know how to fight in it, and a final six to be passed combat ready. And that was if you were already a fully qualified, combat-trained army helicopter pilot.”
neyy9 TIL that in 2018, country music fans were shocked and appalled to learn that lifelong hippy and progressive Willie Nelson was, in fact, not a Republican.
R5MR1 TIL The Tomb of Mausolus, one of the ancient wonders of the world is beĺieved to have stood for over sixteen centuries before being damaged by an earthquake. After it was damaged the stone was scavenged and The Knights of St John of Rhodes used it fortify it in Bodrum Castle 1494.
looVA Short answer: Yes
W7g4o TIL the first steam engine, known as the 'Aeolipile,' was invented in the 1st century AD by the Hero of Alexandria, a Greek-Egyptian mathematician and engineer, in Alexandria, Egypt