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TIL Jackie Gleason made $11 million dollars for making the Honeymooners.

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6J97 TIL that the call sign “Air Force One” was created in 1954 to avoid confusion, after an incident where a commercial flight and President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s plane carried the same number in the same airspace.
wLXr8 TIL Loneliness has a greater chance of causing premature death than obesity.
nxad TIL In Indian culture it is rude to say “Please” and “Thank You” to friends and family, the words are basically non existent. Instead it is expected to help one another out at any given moment.
Kbn9 TIL a man who became paralysed after a motorcycle accident gave money raised for an operation that could allow him to be able to walk again to a young boy who suffered from Cerebral Palsy so the boy could take his first steps.
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