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TIL the USA has 11 aircraft carriers in operation, the rest of the world has the same number as a combined total

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ADjO7 TIL about Katyn massacre, a series of mass executions of nearly 22,000 Polish military officers and intelligentsia carried out by the Soviet Union, specifically the NKVD ("People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs", the Soviet secret police) in April and May 1940.
ANojw TIL: William Duer, a member of George Washington's inner circle was involved in the first American Insider Trading scandal. Using his knowledge of upcoming Treasury actions, he borrowed and took money from the treasury to leverage bond bets. The market then crashed and Hamilton had to rescue it.
mxoPo TIL that a fish at the Vancouver Aquarium was given a prosthetic eye so it wouldn’t be bullied by other fish.
BJbK TIL: There is a search engine company that uses 80% of his revenue to plant trees. It is from Germany.
MQGK TIL there is a sport called Banzai Skydiving. You throw the parachute out of the airplane first and then jump after it.