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TIL Walmart allows RV’s to park overnight, pending available space, as they are considered some of their best customers.

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b954Q TIL that "daddy long legs" are not spiders. They are called Harvestmen, or Opiliones, and they are more closely related to mites.
krjm TIL when a airplane crashed in the icy Potomac River, Arland Williams and 5 other survivors fled to the tail section. He was then tossed a lifeline from a helicopter twice and handed it off twice to others more severely injured than himself. He ended up being the only victim to die by drowning.
Y77rW TIL the first supersonic airliner was not the Concorde or Tu-144, but a DC-8. During a test flight in 1961 it achieved supersonic speed for 16 seconds while in a dive. Accompanying the airliner in a chase plane was Chuck Yeager, the first pilot to break the sound barrier.
jLLp TIL the cross-dressing character “Corporal Klinger” on MAS*H was inspired by the ‘50s/'60s counterculture comedian Lenny Bruce who was dishonorably discharged from the Navy during WWII for wearing a woman’s uniform and claiming homosexual tendencies
R7bR9 TIL Van Gogh sold a total of one painting during his lifetime