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TIL Wounded Warrior Project revenue spends 62% on officer and CEO salaries. Soldiers get the remaining 38%.

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8eena TIL that Countess Magdalena "Nina" von Stauffenberg, wife of Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg (key player in the 20 July plot against Hitler in 1944) was a third cousin to the Duke of Edinburg, the late Prince Philip. She died in 2006.
kOwPE TIL Michael Jackson attempted to buy the ownership rights of 'Spider Man'. Stan Lee declined. After that failed MJ attempted to buy 'Marvel' entirely.
l7nZK TIL The Romans started their calendars from March. So October meaning 8 should be the 8th month, September the 9th etc.
ymp8 TIL when Australian driver Alan Jones won the 1977 Austrian Formula 1 Grand Prix, the race organisers didn’t have a copy of his national anthem to play at the podium ceremony (unaware that it was God Save The Queen). Instead, a drunk person played “Happy Birthday” on a trumpet.
6EDMY TIL Sea Silk, one of the rarest fabrics in the world, is secreted by Pen Shell mollusks to attach themselves to rocks or the seafloor. When harvested from these mollusks and woven into thin fibers the silk is even lighter and smoother than conventional silk.