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TIL all aircraft in the Israeli airline El-Al are equipped with flares to protect against missiles.

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DQAQp TIL that in 1920, then-Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Herbert Hoover (then a businessman who had no official political affiliation) to run for the Democratic Nomination for President and choose Roosevelt to be his running mate.
DQxjJ TIL that in the 2000 Paralympic games, Spain was stripped of its intellectually disabled basketball gold medal after it was revealed that only 2 of its 12 basketball players actually had an IQ below 75, the requirement to qualify. Intellectual disability would be abandoned until the 2012 Paralympics
e0Qv5 TIL that in 1973 a Mercedes-Benz 770 F-Cabriolet that was stated to be Hitler's parade limousine was sold for a then record of $153,000. A week later it was revealed to have belonged to Finnish President Carl Mannerheim, but this news was ignored, and the car broke the record again half a year later
wLjpE TIL 80% of males born in the Soviet Union in 1923 did not survive World War II.
gog9 TIL that Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin liked Monty Python so much they helped fund the film “Monty Python and the Holy Grail”