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TIL that Cindy Lauper's Girls Just Wanna Have Fun is a cover of a 1979 song by Robert Hazard.

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E10j7 TIL that in 2002 a Garuda Indonesia Flight 421 lost both its engines mid-flight due to a severe hailstorm. Relying on only its standby instruments due to a faulty APU, the pilots successfully ditched the aircraft into a narrow and twisted portion of the Bengawan Solo River between two bridges.
5Y5w9 TIL that the US has spent over $4.79 Trillion on wars in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan and Pakistan and the Department of Homeland Security through 2016
jNklX TIL the amount of arable land (land that crops can grow on) per person on the planet is .19 hectacres, less then half a football field (excluding endzone).
lgX1 TIL: The airplane crash in Breaking Bad (ABQ) was inspired by a crash from 1986, the real controller’s name was Walter White
e0Xln Til about Scurvy, chronic vitamin C deficiency. "Bones that had previously broken rebreak. Old wounds open up. This is because one of the major effects of scurvy is that the body can no longer produce collagen, the glue of the body’s cells"