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TIL that NASA is still paying Space Shuttle landing fees 11 years after the program ended.

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9wW86 TIL Tyler Perry has a private pilot license, and is a massive RC plane enthusiast and pilot. He owns a hangar full of massive RC planes, including an A380, 747, and a bunch of others.
OYd1 TIL that “in 2005, a Canadian teleco – Telus – blocked its customers from visiting a pro-union website during a labor dispute. Telus just happened to be the company "at the heart of the dispute.”
xV8p5 TIL of Lisztomania, the obsessive fan hysteria surrounding the classical composer Franz Liszt. Admirers would fight over his locks of his hair, pull his carriage like horses, and carry glass vials of his old cigars and coffee dregs.
6EBoJ TIL that in Nazi Germany, the founders of Adidas and Puma (The Dassler brothers) secretly gave Jesse Owens a pair of track shoes that helped him win 4 gold medals for the Americans in the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. This gift is said to have spared their factory from destruction from Allied forces.
9w6EB TIL most insurance companies have ceased all new auto insurance policies in California.