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TIL The second largest Air Force in the world is the US Navy

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Z8byG TIL George Lucas gave away all $4 Billion he got from Disney's purchasing of Star Wars
4kMyw TIL that Louisiana law mistakenly lists and restricts a variety of edible groundcherry as a hallucinogen, despite its long history of use as food by native peoples
X0kWX TIL: SS Christopher Columbus, the only 'Whaleback' ship ever built for passenger service, carried more passengers in her 40-year career than any other ship on the Great Lakes.
5Y7w8 TIL AC/DC briefly considered breaking up after their original frontman, Bon Scott, died. However, encouraged by the insistence from Scott's parents that he would've wanted them to go on, the band decided to continue. They found Brian Johnson as their new frontman and "Back in Black" was made.
KOOQG TIL that a Chinese millionaire author of online fantasy novels paid $10,000 for the most expensive single dram (shot) of Scotch ever sold, only to have the bar manager fly to China to refund him in person when the Scotch was determined to be a fake