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epPlL TIL that copra, dried coconut meat which contains concentrated coconut oil, is banned from flights in India due to the risk of spontaneous combustion.
69vRJ TIL in 1965, Air India airlines commissioned Salvador Dali to design an ashtray for the airlines. Dali requested an elephant as fees so the airline flew a two year old elephant from Bangalore to Geneva. After Dali lost interest, the elephant was taken to the Barcelona Zoo in 1971.
7rgKZ TIL the man in Edvard Munch's 'The Scream' is not the one screaming, nature is. Munch says it depicts "a vast infinite scream through nature" that he felt. Because of the red skies in Norway at the time some believe that The Scream was from the Krakatoa Eruption.