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TIL Fedex keeps empty planes in the sky to be able to respond to changing freight demand quickly

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bjVZ TIL 903 miles from Benghazi under President Ronald Reagan in 1983, numerous warnings were ignored in the Shiite truck bombing that killed 220 US Marines in Beirut. The lead sentry had no bullets in his gun.
9YNMp TIL That when a whale dies in colder waters, its body sinks to the ocean floor creating a complex localized ecosystem for years called a whale fall.
vPjlx TIL that American milk is pasteurized using a high-temperature short-time pasteurization, that gives a shelf life of 7 to 10 days. Europe however, uses an ultra-high-heat pasteurization which results in about a 3 month shelf life.
VM0QQ TIL that an Irish suffragette named Mary Maloney followed Winston Churchill around in his every move for a week ringing a very large bell every time he tried to speak. Her most famous “interruption” was on May 6th 1908 while Churchill was campaigning in Dundee.
R7Gvj TIL Senegal and other African countries are building a wall of trees across the width of Africa to stop the advancement of the Saharan desert.