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TIL That all FAA employees and their family are not allowed to directly buy stock in an airline. They are however allowed to purchase them indirectly through a management index fund

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WkwZo TIL The Model T Ford offered superior strength despite its light weight. It also featured a generous ground clearance that could take the worst roads, over rocks, across bogs and through snow, which made it particularly enticing to rural drivers
rROgw TIL that Retta, Parks and Rec's Donna Meagle, is the niece of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberia's first female President and a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
GYBw4 TIL Kate Bush topped the UK charts at just 19 y/o with her debut single 'Wuthering Heights', the first female artist to do so with a self-written song, and in 2016 she had 8 albums in the UK Top 40 simultaneously, the third-most for any artist, behind only Elvis and the Beatles.
Pljg TIL that tap water in Canada is held to a higher health standard than bottled water.
Z8EEp TIL that more than 40.000 Italian soldiers operated as part of the US Army Service Corps in World War 2.