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TIL first ever flight by first ever airline pilot in the world. quite awesome.

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QJvkk Today I learned there's a term for diarrhea after high intensity running "Runners Trots"
a81Wb TIL the world’s oldest country is San Marino. This small country covering just 62 square kilometres was founded in 301 AD.
N71vb TIL it is a common misconception that all sunflower heads track the Sun across the sky. While young sunflowers do exhibit the behavior, when it reaches maturity the sunflower will stay static usually towards an eastwards direction.
mZVv TIL For over a 150 years, pitbulls were known as “Nanny dogs” for keeping childrens safe and beeing a tolerant breed (Article’s part 1 and 2 can be found at the end of the article)
jNyp TIL neuroscientists have shown that the Arabic alphabet is objectively harder to read than any other writing system