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TIL that Israel's flag carrier El Al is the only commercial airline to equip its planes with missile defense systems to protect its planes against surface-to-air missiles

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OjPL TIL of actor William Haines (1900–1973), who quit acting in 1935 when his studio employer, MGM, tried to pressure him into ending his relationship with his male partner and entering into a “lavender marriage” to hide his homosexuality. Instead, the two started a successful interior design business.
m1l7p TIL that rhinoplasty surgeries date back to the sixth century B.C. in India. An Indian physician named Sushruta documented instructions in the Sushruta Samhita for performing scores of surgical procedures – including three types of skin grafts and reconstruction of the nose.
b6o1a TIL Hopscotch is listed among the games prohibited by Buddha.
QD6p TIL that the Gatling gun was invented by a doctor who noticed that the majority of soldiers died in the civil war due to diseases not gun shot wounds
PYnOe TIL that natural gas, a cheap and available fossil fuel extensively mined in the USA, produces roughly 50% LESS climate changing carbon dioxide than coal, and that most coal-powered power plants can be converted to run on it.