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TIL flies can live for days without their head

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oBEY7 TIL each F-22 Raptor jet costs 334 million dollars (give or take) plus about $60,000 for every flight hour, and during 40% of it's lifespan is in the shop for maintenance and the USAF owns and pays for all 186 in existence.
rNGW0 TIL Samsung created a butt shaped robot that sits on their phones to test their durability. The robot exerts 220 pounds of pressure on their phones during testing. The robot even wears jeans.
9Ye0B TIL the Gaelic Manx language (related to Scottish and Irish) went extinct when its last native speaker died in 1974.
Z8KEo TIL that Oklahoma is the only state to have an official state meal (not just a state food). It consists of squash, cornbread, fried okra, BBQ pork, grits, biscuits, sausage and gravy, corn, chicken-fried steak, black-eyed peas, strawberries, and pecan pie.
mx9PP TIL: it’s so common and customary to have American style tacos on Fridays in Norway, they have a name for it: Fredagstacos