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TIL 84% of Vegetarians & Vegans go back to eating meat.

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nEkb TIL In 1965 at age 90 and with no heirs Jeanne Calment sold her apartment to lawyer André-François Raffray on a contingency contract. Raffray, aged 47 agreed to pay her a monthly sum of 2,500 francs until she died. Raffray ended up paying Calment >$180,000; more than double the apartment’s value.
Xa9D TIL Lieutenant “Mad” Jack Churchill was the only soldier of WWII to kill a man with a longbow, and the first to go into battle with one in hundreds of years. He did this while also armed with a broadsword and bagpipes, which he played while killing enemies.
x6bY0 Today I learned the longest running joke in the movie Airplane! is the jet has the sound of propeller engines.
b64Aa TIL that the Philadelphia Derringer which became popular with assassins, were almost always sold in matching pairs and are now these days very hard to find still in this condition.
ANZ7B TIL that the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has a sunscreen protection factor (SPF) of 1.2 million on its sunshield