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TIL about Ed Long who clocked over 65,000 hours flying. Started at the age of 17 with his first and only lesson in 1933.

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RwX7 TIL a list was compiled of actors with the most on-screen kills, which included (understandably) Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, and Clint Eastwood, but also at #7, beating out Jet Li, is Nicolas Cage with 204 on-screen kills.
OoPG7 TIL that when Robin Williams auditioned for the part of Mork, an extraterrestrial from the planet Ork, Williams sat on his head when offered a chair. He was hired on the spot, the producer later commenting “Williams was the only alien who auditioned for the role.”
BgrDx TIL a significant part of the local economy of Kinmen County is making high quality chef's knives from the over 1 million artillery shells fired on the island in the 1950s. Shells filled with propaganda leaflets instead of explosives landed whole, leaving tons of high quality steel lying around.
VwjG TIL that in 2010 a british policeman drove an Ice cream van into the middle of a riot and played “ice-cream van” music in an attempt to calm the youths. The official report was, ‘humour defused the situation and the trouble stopped’.
gx4W TIL in 2007, a US Marine in Iraq befriended a stray desert dog called Nubs. After someone stabbed the dog with a screwdriver, the marine nursed him back to health, developing such a bond that when the unit left, Nubs picked up the scent and walked 70 miles through Iraqi desert warzone to be with him