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TIL there were no casualties in the 2022 Cyprus earthquake besides 1,600 chickens that died in a stampede caused by their panic

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R5Md8 TIL the pilots attempts to save Alaska Airlines Flight 261 on 31 January 2000 served as an inspiration for the fictionalized crash landing in the 2012 movie Flight. Flight 261 experienced a catastrophic loss of pitch control and crashed into the Pacific ocean, killing all 88 on board.
Kbm6 TIL there are females modeling only for menswear.
lgrV TIL the world’s first newspaper can be traced to Julius Caesar
Yp0EG TIL Joan of Arc asked King Charles VII to exempt her village from taxes “forever.” this was upheld for over 300 years until the French Revolution happened and the promise was forgotten.
R5ZG4 TIL In the 1590s, a Spanish admiral made up an entire nation, complete with dozens of fake coats of arms, so that he could claim to be a nobleman and join a fraternity of knights. In doing so, he accidentally popularized the pan-South-Slavic movement, and caused the founding of Yugoslavia in 1918.