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TIL The Common Swift Is the Record Holder for Longest Uninterrupted Flight. It can stay in the air for 10 months straight

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9wLEM TIL that the last U.S. Army cavalry charge in combat occurred in 1942. American soldiers would not enter combat on horseback again until Army Green Berets used them in October 2001.
8eQoa TIL about the Starkweather murders and Carli Fugate’s struggle to be pardoned. The 12th Victim Official Trailer | Documentary Series | SHOWTIME
An5B TIL A D.A.R.E Cop was caught selling 414 Ecstasy Pills and 50 Bottles of Ketamine to an undercover cop from a different town. The Dare Cop was also a son of a Former Police Captain and lived in a house owned by the retired Police Captain.
xVLD TIL that Daniel Day-Lewis once took a 5 year hiatus from filmmaking by moving to Italy and becoming a cobbler’s apprentice.
e0oB5 TIL The Florida Keys ceded from the United States and formed the “Conch Republic” as a protest to a border patrol on the only road to the mainland for a short bit.