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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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d8Xwr TIL that the penalty for placing a sales call to a number on the Do Not Call list is $40,654 per call.
NOvN TIL in 2015 an EVE Online player known as “Non Erata” stole 600 Billion ISK (in game currency) - equal to $13000 USD in reality. This was accomplished by working his way up the ranks for over 6 real months in an in game corporation and stealing everything while the leadership was offline
pr9e TIL when Halle Berry accepted her Razzie award for Catwoman in person, she thanked Warner Bros. “Thank you for putting me in a piece of shit, god-awful movie… It was just what my career needed.”
epaPg TIL John and Lorenna Bobbitt, an American former couple whose relationship received international press coverage in 1993 when Lorena severed John's penis with a food knife while he was asleep in bed; the penis was successfully surgically reattached.
kJenB TIL Lexi Alexander based Punisher: War Zone's limited colour palate on the box of comics Marvel sent her when she signed on to direct the film. It was only later that she discovered that she'd been sent cheap, three-colour copies of the original comics to save money.