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TIL: F-35 pilots must keep their hair in the same shape as a new haircut may cause their custom made helmets to not fit correctly.

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mxJbY TIL that the first person in history whose name we know is 'Kushim', who was not a King, poet or a warrior, but an accountant. He signed a receipt which said "29,086 measures barley 37 months Kushim", which was found on a clay tablet in Mesopotamia.
MeN1m TIL only two male solo artists have had top 40 hits in the each of the last four decades: Michael Jackson and "Weird Al" Yankovic.
LkPJQ TIL that 20th Century Fox sued Universal Studios in 1978, claiming that Battlestar Galactica used 34 distinct ideas stolen from Star Wars. Universal sued Fox, claiming that Star Wars took ideas from Buck Rogers and Silent Running. The case lasted 5 years before the studios settled out of court.
gMvOX TIL that Norway, the Netherlands, and Sweden all have a higher percentage of English speakers than Canada.
W7y1d TIL: 242 known languages went extinct during the 20th century