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TIL vanilla is the second most expensive spice

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JYWMm TIL that most Turkish citizens never heard before or can’t notice many languages spoken in the country by other ethnic minorities. Ie. some think Greek is Japanese.
g8e9 TIL there were two versions of the Dennis the Menace comic, released at the same time, on different sides of the atlantic, by different authors, with no plagiarism involved.
jJKa TIL that the current unofficial record for the “Cannonball Run” (a illegal race from New York, New York to Los Angeles, California) is set at 31 hours and 4 minutes.
GYBM1 TIL Charles Quinton Brown Jr. is a United States Air Force four-star general and currently serves as the 22nd chief of staff of the Air Force. He is the first African-American to be appointed as Chief of Staff and the first African-American to lead any branch of the United States Armed Forces
o15E TIL, without permission, test pilot Tex Johnson did a barrel roll in a prototype 707 during a first look at a an air show with a lot of potential customers in attendance. When his boss called him into his office and said “What the hell were you doing?”, he replied “Selling Airplanes.”.