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TIL In the 1940’s and 1950’s a “blow job” was slang for the sonic boom behind jet aircraft.

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16A4X TIL that even after 2 atomic bombs had been dropped on Japan in WW2, the movement against surrender was so strong that there was an attempted coup against the Emperor to stop the capitulation.
An0d TIL Tony Wild, the man who introduced Kopi Lewak (coffee found in the feaces of a species of south asian cat) to the west, launched a campaign to ban the product due to the massive cruelty in producing the coffee.
pMbZ TIL An Ohio Judge, who each year would move a drunken-driving trial from his courtroom to a local high school as a cautionary tale to students, was arrested himself on a DUI after he hit a County bus, failed to stop, then refused a sobriety test after being pulled over by police
8JNG TIL General Motors pays its CEO more than it pays in US taxes
gyO9 TIL there is a 99.26% correlation (r=0.992558) between divorce rates in Maine and the per capita consumption of margarine.