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TIL: FL woman sent thousands of dollars to Peru to help suspected killer Joran Van der Sloot with his defense.

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rkxd TIL Heinz was caught underfilling its ketchup bottles and was ordered to overfill its ketchup bottles for the next year.
grdr7 TIL That Hitler paid his respects to victims of America's largest (at the time) non-nuclear explosion when over 300 children & teachers died in New London
dJJZ TIL that in 1856, an Indian mathematician was hired to calculate the height of Mount Everest and found it to be exactly 29,000 ft. Authorities released the height as 29,002 ft to avoid speculation that they had just given a rounded estimate as it would have been hard to believe the exact figure.
XDlr TIL that Americans buy so many wings, they’re now the most expensive part of the chicken
jOaQ TIL In 1928 two AF officers flew to a record of 38,000 feet in a small biplane. The controls then completely froze in the -78 degree air, and with oxygen depleting, they waited for 20 minutes until the plane ran out of fuel. Now powerless, the pilot glided all the way down for a smooth landing