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TIL that when the number 40 appears in the Bible, it doesn’t literally mean 40, but rather it just means “a lot”

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p8bP4 TIL a 64-year-old manager at a French defense manufacturer was gifted a ride as a passenger in a military jet but he failed to secure himself properly in the cockpit and at one point tried to to hold onto the ejector handle, accidentally activating it and ejecting himself mid-flight.
5DPR TIL that in 1968 Charles Schulz resisted adding a black character to Peanuts because he thought it would be seen as condescending. After adding Franklin, his syndicate tried to force Schulz to remove him. He said, “Either you print it just the way I draw it or I quit. How’s that?”
ADk4w TIL Charlie Chaplin received a 12-minute standing ovation when he won the Honorary Oscar in 1972, the longest in Oscar history
x6kPD TIL of The Beetle (1897), a novel about a shapeshifter in London. It was so popular upon release, that it sold six times as many copies as Dracula.
VMlKp TIL The United States has been in a state of national emergency ever since September 14, 2001