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TIL that black printer ink is the eighth most expensive liquid in the world

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Goo7 TIL a USMC General and Medal of Honor recipient wrote a bestselling book describing how wars exist to enrich corporations. In 1935.
QJV69 TIL that LBJ constantly asked the flight crew of Air Force One to change the temperature of the cabin. Eventually, they installed a fake control knob for him to 'control' the temperature himself. The president stopped complaining.
vPKP8 TIL according to the King James Bible, Book of Revelations, the City of God is 1500 miles in length, width and height.
jN5rN TIL that Doug White, a single engine aircraft pilot with only 80 hours of flight time who was on a chartered flight with his wife and two daughters, successfully landed a twin engine King Air 200 after the pilot had a heart attack.
wBY6 TIL of American military officer Roddie Edmonds, whose unit was captured during WW2. When asked by his Nazi captors to identify the Jewish soldiers under his command, Edmonds replied, “We are all Jews here.” He saved as many as 200 Jewish-American soldiers from execution.