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XEeM6 TIL that Russia trained dolphins how to kill people with harpoons and to undertake kamikaze strikes against enemies. They then sold them to Iran after running out of dolphin food
8eg68 TIL Alice Cooper owns the first "O" next to the "W" the Hollywood sign. He purchased it in memory of Groucho Marx for $27,000 as part of a restoration project to restore the sign.
l7GVK TIL TWA flight 800, a Boeing 707, crashed during takeoff in Rome in 1964 after a thrust reverser deployed during it's takeoff roll, causing it to ovverun and hit construction equipment at the end of the runway, killing 49. this is not to be confused with the 1996 crash of TWA 800.
loWPN TIL that those cute little horns on caterpillars give off a terrible, no good, very bad smell if you try to get the buggers off of your parsley. Also, caterpillars love parsley...
pYBmp TIL that the homeownership rate is the proportion of households occupied by the owner divided by the total number of occupied households, so it does not actually reflect the % of human beings that rent - say you have 5 room mates. You only count as 1 "renter", the way the data usually presented