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TIL at least 5 people have been murdered for unfriending someone on Facebook

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nWJQb TIL Air Force One has had more takeoffs than landings. When Gerald Ford was sworn in, the aircraft SAM 27000 was airborne with Nixon onboard. As a result, the callsign changed from Air Force One to SAM 27000 mid-flight.
9w766 TIL Frederick W. Smith, the founder of Fedex, saved the company by gambling the last $5,000 they had on blackjack. He won $27,000 and was able to cover the company's $24,000 fuel bill.
J1Qbk TIL about the Italian Futurist Cooking movement, which rejected pasta and had diners sit inside a mock airplane with vibrating engines to stimulate their appetites
La99 TIL that Rush Limbaugh was detained for prescription fraud when returning to the US with a bottle of Viagra that wasn’t in his name
XkGj TIL that the average annual salary of a professional NBA cheerleader is $56,000