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TIL that in 1990 a wrongly-installed windscreen on BA Flight 5390 fell out, causing the plane’s cockpit to decompress and its captain to be pulled halfway out of the aircraft at over 17,000 feet. The crew held on to the captain’s body fearing it get sucked into the engine. The captain survived.

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80ma TIL researchers found that facial distinctiveness, considered less attractive, was linked to poor health in both men and women. Facial averageness, on the other hand, was linked to good health. One theory is that distinctive facial traits are tied to chromosomal disorders.
0dvGR TIL when adjectives are strung together, there is an order to them to sound “correct”, the order being Opinion, Size, Physical Quality, Shape, Age, Colour, Origin, Material, Type and Purpose.
nWWyG TIL that during a drought in 2019, priests in Bhopal, India wed 2 frogs in order to appease the god of rain, 2 months later the frogs were divorced in order to stop the constant downpour of rain that destroyed over 9,000 homes.
oRKBr TIL that sloths can hold their breath up to twice as long as dolphins
QNP6L TIL Sylvester Stallone said that whilst shooting critically-panned D-Tox (2006) the teamsters met the cast at airport holding signs saying DETOX, making it look like Kris Kristofferson, Tom Berenger and Stallone were all going into rehab rather than a film shoot.