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TIL: Let It Be by the Beatles was actually about Paul's mother, and not the Virgin Mary

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wo8gE TIL Between 2011 and 2020 the second most common cause of death in aviation crashes was suicide by pilot. A majority of these cases were small planes only occupied by the pilot.
R5knj TIL that Bosnia and Herzegovina only uses the letters A, E, O, J, K, M and T in its vehicle registration plates because it uses both the Latin and Cyrillic alphabets, and these letters are written and pronounced identically in both. The same plates can therefore be used in every region.
GAYJQ TIL King Gojong, on the 16th day of the 11th month of 1895 (32nd year of reign), issued an edict that all adult men cut their hair short: “In front of the people I cut my hair first, so it is my wish that the people follow my will ... "
LkwwZ TIL President Warren Harding's dog Laddie Boy was so popular that he was "interviewed" for the Evening Star in 1921. He "said" a dog should appear on U.S. currency and joked Chihuahuas were ill-suited to the American climate but that, seriously, they should be barred from being brought here.
4kmVa TIL of a big science guy named einstern