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TIL Narcissistic - A disorder in which a person has an inflated sense of self-importance. They lack empathy for others.

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RDWj TIL - US Air Force honours their fallen with a fly-by salute, called “The Missing Man” in which the formation flies very low and the leader’s wingman pulls up rapidly, which represents departure to heaven. This is an aerial equivalent of riderless horse.
Lk0J0 TIL that the term "riding shotgun" comes from the word "shotgun messenger" referring to the guard sitting next to the Stagecoach driver who used a shotgun to ward off robbers and miscreants. This found its way into popular culture through Hollywood's love of Westerns
RrA9 TIL More oil is spilled in the Niger delta every year than was spilled in 2010 by BP in the Gulf of Mexico.
b6O8a TIL that Ada Lovelace, the first programmer, was the daughter of Lord Byron, the famous English poet
9YL8B TIL Canada has a polar bear jail for disorderly polar bears