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TIL that before Joseph Stalin ruled Russia he performed bank robberies to fund the communist cause

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neLkr TIL: It is completely legal for women to be topless in Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Kansas and Utah.
epAX6 TIL that US aircraft carriers John F. Kennedy (CV-67) and Kitty Hawk (CV-63), which cost the modern-day equivalent of US$2.5 billion each when built, were both sold to scrap merchants in 2021 for the price of a penny.
0wQ91 TIL about "The Forgotten 500" U.S. airmen who were shot down during bombing raids into Romania. Serbian peasants hid the airmen, at considerable risk, while the men, living on goat’s milk, had to build a runway large enough to land C-47s, without any real tools or alerting Nazis, for their rescue.
o19o TIL that the original Rocky movie was shot in only 28 days, on a budget of 1 million dollars. It is also has one of the highest profit margins of all time, at 225:1.
OGMpR TIL the world oldest confirmed wild bird, a female Laysan Albatross named Wisdom, is estimated to have flown over 3,000,000 miles (4,800,000 km) since 1956.