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TIL an Air Canada passenger flight took a detour and dropped from 37,000 feet to 4,000 feet to help find a stranded yacht off the Australian coast. It took the passengers 25 minutes after the emergency beacon was activated to locate the yacht.

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9Xk7 TIL that shortly before 2 am on Feb. 6, 1858, over 30 members of the U.S. House of Representatives engaged in a fistfight which only ended when a hairpiece was ripped off one of the combatants, causing the melee to dissolve into “a chorus of laughs and jeers.”
BrYMK TIL about a environmentalist who took a vow of silence for 17 years. He first started by taking a vow to never use motor vehicles after the 1971 San Francisco oil spill. He even went through school and even got a PHD while being silent. He only broke it when he played his banjo and thanked the crowd
9w8G TIL The crew of the Challenger likely survived the explosion and died upon impact with the ocean.
9lDD TIL - If you have sex with a woman who just had sex with a different man, the shape of your penis allows you to scoop out his semen and replace it with your own!
gr9oX TIL that Speed Of Gravity Is Equal To The Speed Of Light