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TIL that United Cerebral Palsy publishes a Disability Etiquette guide.

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bKN7 TIL that a single helmet for the Air Force’s new F-35 fighter costs over $400,000
b9OkZ TIL the town of Greensburg, Kansas was almost completely destroyed by an F5 tornado in 2007. The city used the opportunity to rebuild as one of the greenest cities in the world.
a06y TIL there was a British soldier during World War II named Jack Churchill, who fought solely with a longbow, arrows, and a Scottish broadsword. His motto was, “Any officer who goes into action without his sword is improperly armed.”
8Pya TIL that Shakespeare was the first to use many words with the prefix “un” (such as unreal, undress, uneducated, unmitigated, unchanging, etc) in print or on stage.
XE7YE TIL while the term "shrapnel" has been generalized to refer to any fragments of bullets, shell casings, and bombs, the term originally referred to a hollow cannonball filled with lead shot that burst in mid-air, invented by Henry Shrapnel in the 18th century