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TIL The largest “air force” in the world is the US Air Force and the second largest air force in the world is the US Navy.

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r0pM TIL that Salvador Dali created a painting called “Hitler Masturbating”. Nothing figurative about that title.
b6eZp TIL: a homeless man was able to fake being a military sergeant and lived at fort Bragg. during this time he did barracks inspections and apparently kept them well ordered
woOPJ TIL there was an official Ace Attorney movie released in 2012, and Nintendo Life called it "the best video game movie out there"
JZDQ TIL Over the course of the evolution of mammals, one lower and one upper jaw bone lost their purpose in the jaw joint and were put to new use in the middle ear, giving mammals improved hearing ability.
VBXXB TIL of LaVere Redfield, an American multimillionaire who was discovered to be hoarding a massive collection of around 270k silver Morgan dollars and postage stamps in his basement during a robbery in 1952. Following his death in 1974, his heirs uncovered even more coins hidden, around 7.3 million.