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TIL there is one reported incident of a midair collision of a 737 and a fish.

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QJpLa TIL American Gothic (1930) by Grant Wood depicts a Farmer and his Daughter, not a Farmer and his Wife
P6GO TIL that the boy who played Charlie in the original Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory film never acted in another film and is currently a practicing veterinarian in the Adirondacks.
VMepm TIL that a sunflower maze has been planted near Fukushima. Sunflowers are believed the help soil absorb radiation and were also used following the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986.
0dJ5j TIL that platinum was not known in Europe before the (re)discovery of the Americas. The first European reference to platinum appears in 1557 as a description of an unknown noble metal found between Darién and Mexico, "which no fire nor any Spanish artifice has yet been able to liquefy"
9YRjQ TIL in Mexico prison breaking is not illegal. The legal system notes that all citizens have a fundamental desire to be free, so you cannot be punished from attempting to escape jail. If no other laws are broken, those who are caught must only return to jail to complete the rest of their sentence.