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TIL The number of aircraft destroyed during WWII is greater than the number of aircraft that currently exist in the entire world today.

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xVYPb TIL of the Mid-Atlantic accent, a combination of American and British English that no one "actually spoke...unless educated to do so", a fashion from the Northeastern US. Christopher Plummer, Katharine Hepburn, FDR, Julia Child, Gore Vidal, Sideshow Bob, and Mark Hamill's Joker are noted examples.
rAy0 TIL that Winston Churchill, after being told that he could not drink in front of Saudi King due to the King’s religious beliefs, said “my religion prescribed an absolute sacred rite smoking cigars and drinking alcohol before, after, and if need be during all meals and the intervals between them.”
kOg6W TIL France had the most extensive network of optical telegraphs, and the inertia from this made it one of the slowest countries to adopt electrical telegraphs.
gM7KL TIL Apollo 13 was shot in “a hollowed-out, windowless, padded Boeing 707 jet that climbs to 30,000 ft. and then arcs into a steep dive, creating a 23-second period of weightlessness.” This plane is used by NASA for 0g training.
60D8 TIL “The Hunger Games” three fingered salute has become a real symbol of resistance in Thailand against the recent military coup.