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TIL: The F-35 has a lifespan of 8,000 hours and it costs $44,000 per hour to fly.

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5XZR TIL, when Green day singer Billie Joe Armstrong’s father died when he was a child. He ran home from the funeral and locked himself in his room. When his mother followed him home and asked him to come out. He told her to “wake me up when september ends.”
m05Y TIL 92 years ago today started the largest uprising in U.S. history since the Civil War, when over 10,000 armed coal miners attempted to take down lawmakers in an attempt to unionize West Virginian mine workers. The U.S. Army intervened, and the workers lost.
Bpwr TIL that Mr Rogers testified before the Supreme Court defending the position that home recordings for personal use do not constitute copyright infringement
7rV1Z TIL The Viking Rollo, first ruler of Normandy, was called "Gaange Rolf" or "Walking Rolf" because he was too heavy for any horses to carry and had to walk everywhere
VM0Jk TIL Emma Lazarus' sonnet The New Colossus, which says, "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free" was written for & donated to an auction to raise funds to build the pedestal for the Statue of Liberty. 16 years after her death, a plaque with her words was installed