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TIL that the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade purposely reroutes to try and avoid unauthorized CBS cameras

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Bgd9K TIL In the last 10 years, despite hundreds of millions of passengers each year, only two people have died from accidents in commercial U.S. flights.
v1oeD TIL about Sir Upendranath Brahmachari, who saved millions of lives by developing a cure for Kala-Azar in 1920's. He was nominated multiple times for the Nobel Prize in medicine but is not recognized by the government and the people
e0vdD TIL that to solve their issue of crime syndicates attending shareholder meetings and blackmailing members, Japanese businesses decided to hold all their annual meetings on the same day because the syndicates would not have enough people to send to all of them.
O7NY TIL that the world’s oldest social housing complex, “Fuggerei”, which is still inhabited today, has not raised its rent of 0.88 Euros since 1523
A4n7 TIL: The sound made by the Krakatoa volcanic eruption in 1883 was so loud it ruptured eardrums of people 40 miles away, traveled around the world four times, and was clearly heard 3,000 miles away.