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TIL That July is Disability Pride Month

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OG58R TIL that Australia has never had a passenger jet crash. Military jets, firefighting jets, prop driven passenger planes have crashed - but never a single jet, either in Australia or an Australian operator elsewhere.
YO7x TIL Johnny Cash was born with the name J.R. Cash because his parents couldn’t think of a name. When he enlisted in the Air Force, they wouldn’t let him use his initials, so he began to call himself John.
5VgmD TIL on March 22nd, 1989, a sub-kilometer-sized asteroid called 581 Asclepius came within 500,000 miles of hitting the earth. The collision would have released energy comparable to a 600 megaton atomic bomb. The asteroid was discovered nine days after its closest approach to the Earth.
ebR6 TIL soccer player Ronaldinho came to media attention at 13 years old when his team won 23-0. He’d scored all 23 goals.
m76P TIL that Guantanamo Bay has a few fast food restaurants on base, and prisoners who cooperate in interrogations have been given McDonald’s Happy Meals as rewards