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TIL “Roger Wilco” means “Received, Will Comply”

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ep5b5 TIL In 1939 John and Judy Lomax travelled the Southern States of America recording folk, religious, ballads, hollers, corridos, dance tunes and work songs performed by regular people and even prisoners
0wmVp TIL about the Oka Crisis, where the mayor of Oka wanted to raze Aboriginal land to expand a golf course. A documentary, called Kanehsatake: 270 years of resistance gives a native’s perspective
4XQLb TIL the orange balls on power lines are called visibility marker balls (or just marker balls, for short), and they help make power lines more obvious to low-flying aircraft like planes and helicopters.
78mnL TIL that Fyodor Dostoevsky had a crippling gambling addiction. He was frequently in debt, and wrote an entire novel based on this addiction, titled "The Gambler". Once, his financial situation was so dire his wife was reportedly forced to pawn off her underwear.
VM85G TIL In 1967 Michael J. Adams (Maj USAF) flew an X-15 to an altitude above 50 miles and qualified as an astronaut according to the U.S. definition of the boundary of space. Moments later the craft broke apart, killing Adams and destroying the X-15-3. He was the first American space mission fatality.