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TIL of the "Jesus nut", a helicopter part so important, that if it were to fail in flight, to only thing left for the crew to do would be to pray to Jesus.

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xVwNk TIL that at his insistence (citing that it would be "blood money"), all royalties from Schindler's List, that would normally have gone to Steven Spielberg instead are given to the Shoah Foundation which records and preserves written and videotaped testimonies from survivors of genocide worldwide.
pYBDQ TIL that mixing two metaphors like, "We'll burn that bridge when we come to it" is called a mixaphor.
D1L7J TIL that the blanket octopus has the biggest sexual size-dimorphism of any non microscopic organism. Females can be 6 feet long, while males are only 2.4 cms long.
e0JE6 TIL Senator from Massachusetts Edward Brooke the first African-American ever to be elected to the Senate by popular vote, spoke personally of his return from World War II and inability to provide a home of his choice for his new family because of his race.
p8aPQ TIL 1972 Soviet Union's eavesdropping led to “The Great Grain Robbery” of communications on calls between American wheat farmers and the Department of Agriculture that enabled the Russians to covertly buy record amounts of wheat at low prices, causing a U.S. grain shortage 18 months later.