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TIL North Korea has its own airline, which also happens to be the only 1 star rated airline according to Skytrax

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ADEy7 TIL of Erwin Kreuz, a German tourist who planned to visit San Francisco but accidentally disembarked early, and then spent days looking for the Golden Gate Bridge and other Bay Area landmarks in Bangor, Maine. Amused and touched, Maine residents turned him into a local celebrity.
ae59 TIL that to show how Classical Chinese had become an impractical language, linguist Chao Yuen Ren wrote a 92-character poem in which every syllable has the sound “shi”. The poem “Shī Shì shí shī shǐ” translates to “Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den”.
1awwP TIL that a pilot was sucked out of the cockpit of a passenger jet. A crew member held on to his body until landing, at which point they discovered he had survived.
5Ymon TIL of August Dvorak, who in 1936 invented a 'perfect keyboard' which is way more efficient than regular keyboards as it requires less finger motion and reduces errors compared to the standard QWERTY keyboard arrangement.
j6kZN TIL Ghazipur landfill is nicknamed "Trash Mahal" which is the tallest rubbish mountain in New Delhi almost as high as Taj Mahal.