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TIL that in the 1980s, "Weird Al" Yankovic turned down a $5 million beer endorsement deal, which would be worth around $14.5 million today, because he felt it was unethical given his young, impressionable fanbase.

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OGBOg TIL When a man in New York needed a heart transplant from a donor in Oklahoma, the hospital reached out to the US Air Force to help with transportation. The donor heart was transported across the country in two hours on an F-111 fighter jet. The operation was a complete success.
BomL TIL USSR’s first long-range bomber, the Tu-4, was such an exact copy of a confiscated American B-29 that it even featured a repair patch on its fuselage where the original plane had been damaged.
BgBK TIL Deion Sanders is the only player to hit a major league home run and score a touchdown in the NFL in the same week, Sanders is also the only man to play in both a Super Bowl and a World Series.
0gr1 TIL you are allowed to bring your own parachute on a US commercial flight.
rRwyy TIL - When Icelandic people are born they do not take the same last name of their parents. Instead they take their fathers first name and add "son" (son) if you are a boy, or "dottir" (daughter) if you are a girl, to create their last name.