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TIL the president of India is female.

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NXypQ TIL when D.B. Cooper hijacked NOA flight 305 in 1971, this was the 'Golden Age of Hijackings' with an average of 1 hijacking every 5 days. Amazingly, until Cooper successfully parachuted out of the plane at 10,000 feet into the freezing cold with $200,000, hijacking a plane was not a federal crime.
wL6gJ TIL that South America was once inhabited by giant sloths (Megatherium). It weighed up to 4 tonnes (similar to a present day elephant) and on its hind legs it would have stood 3.5m (12ft), which make it the largest bipedal mammal of all time. It lived from ca 400'000 ago until ca 8'000 ago.
m1jNo TIL of a form of refrigeration that does not need moving parts and cacn run on a cup of kerosene
gx99 TIL a woman donated a kidney to her boss, who then fired her when she took too long to recover from the operation.
VBK1k TIL the phrase "Writing on the Wall" originates from the Book of Daniel (Old Testament) in which King Belshazzar sees a disembodied hand writing the doomed fate of the Babylonian Empire on a wall at a party