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TIL that Amelia Rose Earhart actually has never held the record as the youngest woman to circumnavigate the globe in a single-engine aircraft; that record belongs to Richarda Morrow-Tait

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E15p7 TIL American's have to pay to use the beaches (only some)
d8dj TIL Jack Black was a pilot in the 1995 movie Waterworld
NQME TIL in the movie “Toy Story”, Sid’s carpet pattern in his house is the same carpet pattern from the Overlook Hotel in the movie “The Shinning”. Sid is also the only human in the series to know that the toys are alive.
neY5Y TIL about Poncke Princen, a Dutch anti-Nazi fighter who was later sent to Indonesia to suppress an anticolonial rebellion. Princen, after witnessing Dutch war crimes, defected to fight with the guerrillas in 1948. He later helped expose the anticommunist massacres of Indonesian dictator Suharto.
0d0r1 TIL Hitler, as Chancellor of Germany in 1933, implemented policies to improve the economy, including privatization of state-owned industries, import tariffs, and autarky. This led to reduced foreign trade, resulting in rationing of consumer goods like poultry, fruit, and clothing for many Germans.