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TIL Pan Am airlines had a 93,000 customer waiting list for flights to the Moon.

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yQxJp TIL during WWII the British planned to build a giant aircraft carrier out of ice (actually a wood pulp/ice mix) to protect the convoys in the Atlantic from German U boats. The project ended owing to rising costs and the development of longer-range aircraft that closed the gap in air coverage.
jV1j TIL jimmy kimmel launched a campaign to end womens suffrage. Apparently a large number of women were willing to sign away their right to vote
9Y6nM TIL of the War Horse Memorial—a statue honoring the nearly one million horses mules, and donkeys that lost their lives during the First World War. The statue features a horse named Poppy who possesses a gaunt physique and barbed wire wrapped around its hooves.
v6mr TIL: The MAXIMUM entry age for new air traffic controllers to be accepted by the FAA is 30.
woPGY TIL in 2007, Malaysia sent its first astronaut to the ISS. The government and Islamic scholars also wrote that in order to pray, Muslims in space should face Mecca if possible; but if not, they could face the Earth generally, or just face “wherever.”