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TIL In 1830 there were 3,775 free black people who owned 12,740 black slaves

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AD66l TIL about CRAF, the Civil Reserve Air Fleet. It requires some airlines to reserve a portion of their fleet for military deployments that are on-call & ready within 24-48hrs, should demand exceed military resources. Lately, it is one of the reasons why the govt. will continue bail out the airlines.
rRjao TIL That humans have stripes along our body called Blaschko's lines that we can't see, but cats can!
aXoA TIL that the U.S. is home to a single wild jaguar, and it lives in Arizona.
gvO4 TIL when Weird Al showed Mark Mothersbaugh his style parody “Dare to be Stupid,” Mothersbaugh said he hated Al for it because Al had perfected the sound that Devo had always tried to achieve.
pO0b TIL the mobile game “Send Me to Heaven” involves throwing your phone as high in the air as you can. the creator said he made it with the hope of destroying as many iPhones as possible, but Apple banned it from the App Store.