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TIL it costs $228,288 an hour to operate Air Force One.

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6BGX TIL that there is a court that “meets in secret, hears only the arguments of the government prior to deciding a case and its rulings cannot be appealed or even reviewed by the public” that is responsible for ruling when the government can spy on its citizens.
ZpvVD TIL that the oldest intact shipwreck ever found is a Greek trading vessel from 400 BC, discovered at the bottom of the Black Sea.
dD0Yj TIL the Isles of Scilly Football League is the smallest football league in the world. There are only two teams, the Garrison Gunners and the Woolpack Wanderers. They play 18 times, usually on Sundays, throughout the winter.
7raNb TIL that 20% of Finnish Americans live in Michigan or Minnesota, and that both of those states have more than twice the Finnish American population of the third (California)
XERb8 TIL Psychology researchers found that listening to heavy metal music is a healthy way of processing negative emotions. It does not make people more violent. Some research shows that metalheads are less likely to cheat on their partners than jazz listeners.