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TIL Britney Spears’ music is used by the British Navy to scare off Somali pirates

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7MDM TIL that in 1956, for a bet, while drunk, Thomas Fitzpatrick stole a small plane from New Jersey and then landed it perfectly on a narrow Manhattan street in front of the bar he had been drinking at. Then, two years later, he did it again after a man didn’t believe he had done it the first time.
KaZa TIL that Albuquerque, NM, started paying the homeless to clean up homeless camps around the city. The participants must work hard and on average five to six hours a day. In return they get $9 an hour plus a lunch of sandwiches, chips and granola bars
p8glp TIL that the Egyptian pyramids are not in the middle of the desert and just 200 meters away from the nearest neighborhood of Cairo. There even is a golf course near the foot of the Cheops pyramid.
rN9No TIL that President Andrew Jackson bested Charles Dickinson in a duel after he had insulted his wife. He was shot first in the duel, but won, and the bullet could not be safely removed afterward for 40 years.
Nra6 TIL in 2008, while promoting a new High School Musical film , Disney had to withdraw a line of young girls underwear from the shelves after they were deemed too sexually suggestive. Why? They had the slogan “Dive in” written on the front.