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TIL each F-22 Raptor jet costs 334 million dollars (give or take) plus about $60,000 for every flight hour, and during 40% of it's lifespan is in the shop for maintenance and the USAF owns and pays for all 186 in existence.

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4XOrJ TIL: [Repost from 3yrs ago] Mythbusters tested breast size and its correlation to cash tips received by restaurant servers - men tipped their large-boobed server 30% more, but women tipped her 40% more.
NXe9J TIL about Loab, an unexpectedly emergent image from artificial intelligence (AI) research featuring a distressed macabre older woman, the subsequent iterations of which have become increasingly violent and gory.
X5gP TIL that when a Google employee dies their spouses receive half pay from the company for 10 years and their children receive 1,000 dollars per month until they’re at least 19
XE1GR TIL that during the Greek War of Independence, 115 Greek revolutionaries surrounded by 10,000 Ottoman troops managed to kill 300 and wound 800 while suffering just 6 casualties. When the Ottomans paused their attack to get cannons ready, the Greeks escaped through enemy lines undetected.
0dZXp TIL that for a brief time in the 50’s, there’s was a “Atomic Energy Lab” science kit marketed for children that contained radioactive uranium, and other questionable kits in subsequent years.