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kJpEe TIL The World's Biggest Plane Window Is 4.5 Feet Wide
Br5Ye TIL that dogs can talk, or at least, they can learn to communicate with humans by pressing buttons that produce sounds for different words, and they can have actual conversations with us
GEWQ TIL that the documentary The Thin Blue Line ended up getting Randall Dale Adams out of the death penalty and freed from prison after 12 years of being wrongly imprisoned. Adams recieved no compensation from the State of Texas. He went on to advocate against the death penalty.
WGRY TIL Usain Bolt ate 100 Chicken McNuggets a day for 10 days before the Beijing Olympics and eventually winning 3 gold medals.
e1aE TIL in March 6, 2010 a blind hiker set on the Appalachian trail with a goal to inspire other visually impaired people. Seven months later, he finished hiking the 1,700 miles using only a cellphone, GPS open-source software, and hearing to locate camps, trailheads, and water sites.