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TIL that pilots in Australia and Canada are allowed to take a “controlled rest in position”, which is a nap in the cockpit, when it is safe to do so

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JYnnj TIL that a woman mistook some cheese for cocaine and so she hired a hit man to kill a house full of people to steal it. The hit man then turned out to be a cop.
XEpKr TIL Charles Darwin ate every animal he ever discovered. Seeking out “birds and beasts which were unknown to human palate.”
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