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TIL that the us military trained pilots over the Great Lakes.

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VBMjQ TIL The Yardbirds had 3 of the top 5 guitarists on Rolling Stones’ list of top 100 guitarists of all time (Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page).
x6bWw TIL : Operation Legacy : A British Colonial Office (later Foreign Office) programme to destroy or hide files that would implicate the British Empire in wrongdoing, as to prevent them from being used by their ex-colonies. It ran till 70s
VB0gk TIL that the term 'spinster' derives from the profession of spinning and threading yarn in the 1300s, one of the few jobs available to lower-status, unmarried women -- and this term carried no stigma initially
eYQg TIL that people build “spite houses” to piss off their neighbors.
joDv TIL that the Mormon Church advocates that it’s members stockpile up to 3 months worth of food “to prepare for adversity.”