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TIL there are sea cruises dedicated to knitting and other crafts

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9wOam TIL King Fahad Intl AirPort in Saudi Arabia has an area of nearly 766 sq km making it the largest airport in the World, larger than entire Bahrain
nwlo TIL in 2014 a cat was badly burned in a house fire that left him blind. He needed over 24 operations and a 1.5 year stay in an animal hospital. Despite his injuries, he offered comfort to every new animal to enter the clinic: fawn, dog, hamster or bird, by snuggling beside them on arrival.
yQBnl TIL about Caño Cristales which is often called “the river of five colours” or the “liquid rainbow”, and according to local legend, it escaped paradise to flow through the Earth.
oR0GK TIL A modern folk etymology holds that the phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from the maximum width of a stick allowed for wife-beating under English common law, but no such law has ever existed.
l7RAV TIL In 1988 Ivan McGuire, an experienced skydiver with 800 recorded dives jumped from the plane for his 3rd dive that day. He had his camera rig with him but completely forgot to equip a parachute rig, thus he jumped to his death from 10.000 feet. The camera footage of the fatal fall survived