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TIL When humans take a breath, they replace only 15% of the air in their lungs with fresh air. When dolphins take a breath, they replace 90% of the air in their lungs with fresh air

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jnjN TIL Andre the Giant died in his sleep while in Paris for his fathers funeral. His father passed 12 days before.
JEkj TIL in the days after the 9/11 attacks the German warship Lutjens(D185) passed by the US destroyer Winston S. Churchill with the US flag flying at half-mast and the sailors Manning-the-Rails, an honor typically reserved for heads of state.
gMpy7 TIL Peter Rabbit author Beatrix Potter was an aspiring mycologist when the prestigious Linnean Society rejected her submitted paper on fungi reproduction because she was a woman. 100 years later (and 54 years after her death), they formally apologized for their sexist treatment of her work
Z8QjQ TIL in 2012, Jihadists armed with a sharpened crutch and explosives attempted to hijack a plane by telling passengers "anyone who stands up will die". They were successfully beaten into submission after a passenger yelled "Come on! Let's stand up and fight them". Two hijackers died.
Y7pOP TIL Lead additive in gasoline and Freon for refrigeration was invented by the same person.