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TIL of Air Commodore Lionel Charlton, who resigned as the RAF Chief Staff Officer in Iraq because he objected to the bombing of Iraqi villages.

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GY8Lj TIL the USPS has a rule that full-service mailbox carrier signal flags should require no more than 2 pounds of force to raise and lower.
ZpeWv TIL while practicing for the '92 Olympics, the Dream Team lost (62-54) to an assembled squad of the best NCAA players. Head Coach Chuck Daly had limited Jordan's playing time & also made other non-optimal substitions in order to "throw the game" to teach the NBA players that they were not unbeatable
1bo7 TIL Patrick Stewart, was initially considered for the role of Data in Star Trek: The Next Generation. Roddenberry did not want to cast Stewart as Picard, since he had envisioned an actor who was “masculine, virile, and had a lot of hair”. Roddenberry’s first choice was Stephen Macht
P1xLw TIL The first reference to a space station in fiction was in 1869 and it was made from bricks.
PYQPw TIL A man in Florida drowned on his birthday, after crashing his car into a fire hydrant. He had managed to get out of his car, but was then sucked into a sinkhole likely created by the water pressure resulting from the fire hydrant's destruction.