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TIL The U.S.Military has a designated unit to rescue astronauts.

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pYY7A TIL the 2010 Lexus SC 430 was the last car to come with a cassette deck in the United States.
KOl7J TIL that in 1942, the HNLMS Abraham Crijnssen, a Dutch minesweeper based in the Netherlands East Indies, successfully disguised itself as a tropical island for several weeks in order to evade Japanese patrols, while withdrawing towards Australia after Allied setbacks in the region during the war.
GAWR5 TIL Canada shares a border with Denmark as of 2022 following the resolution of the “Whiskey Wars”
XEmDj TIL that only one actor has ever earned a REGOT (Razzie, Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Awards): actress Liza Minnelli.
jNLlR TIL in March 2020 an unanimous decision by the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that States can't be sued for copyright infringement. That means a State could theoretically screen any American movie or reprint and sell any book and the original copyright owners couldn't do anything about it.