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TIL NASA is building an electric air plane prototype that will cut operating cost in half, and drop fuel cost from $200 per hr to $35 per hour.

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7VeZ TIL that crime has not just been declining for decades, but for centuries.
69X1J TIL If you report PPP loan cheats to the SBA, you can get up to 30% of what they owe.
e0r15 TIL the ocean liner "Stockholm" that collided with and sunk the Italian liner "Andrea Doria" in 1956 is still in use today as a cruise ship
M7Apm TIL the Uganda Scheme was a proposal by British colonist Joseph Chamberlain to create a Jewish homeland in a portion of British East Africa
W7g5B TIL: That Barry Manilow was once a commercial jingle writer. He performed many of the TV jingles that he composed, including State Farm Insurance and Band-Aid. His singing-only credits include commercials for KFC, Pepsi ("all across the nation, it's the Pepsi Generation"), McDonald's and Dr. Pepper.