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TIL in 1987 a West German 19yo teenager flew through Soviet air defences to land a Cessna plane in Red Square.

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OoWGY TIL that people steal rocks from Hawaii only to mail them back decades later so as to not perhaps or maybe become cursed by the volcano God Pele.
ORm7 TIL A man tried to rob two banks after covering his face with lemon juice in the mistaken belief that, because lemon juice is usable as invisible ink, it would prevent his face from being recorded on surveillance cameras.
yVZrw TIL that readiness potentials are a kind electroencephalogram signal that appears before the intention to perform actions, so they were thought to predict awareness of voluntary movement. But this recent study have found them also before the partecipants decided not to move.
EgeMX TIL Philadelphia cream cheese was created in New York
4law TIL that 12,000 bears are farmed for their bile in Asia which is used in traditional Chinese medicine and generates $2bn per year. Farming always involves surgery on the bears to insert a catheter or to cut a hole through the abdomen by which the bile leaks. Bear bile has no medicinal effect.