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TIL from the 1960s to 1990s, Pan Am flight attendants were required to be under 130 pounds.

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gZ8y TIL the Taliban offered to give up Osama bin Laden for trial before September 11, 2001.
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4kNGw TIL how Sir John Ambrose Fleming revolutionized electronics as we know it today.
wLxgM TIL that after WWII, Col. S. L. A. Marshal published a report that found only 15-20% of soldiers in combat fired to kill during the war, even if their lives were threatened. This prompted the US Army to switch from bulls-eye targets to sillouette targets to desensitize soldiers to killing
M0km TIL in 1942 a RAF pilot dropped a huge French flag on the Arc de Triomphe in occupied Paris then raked the Gestapo’s hedquarters with 20mm shells.