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Today I learned that a 13 year old spotted an incorrect prop in the Al Capone museum exhibit because he casually knows the production timeline of antique radios.

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OoPVa TIL In 1986 an Aeroflot pilot, bet with his co-pilot that he could land the plane flying blind, he curtained all the cockpit windows and crashed the plane, killing 70 out of the 94 passengers, the pilot survived.
R7xY6 TIL that in the time of ancient Rome there were up to 11 aqueducts that drained more than nearly 300 million gallons of water to the city, each day. There were nearly 1,300 public fountains.
wPa8 TIL A goat in Utah was implanted with spider genes as an embryo to produce spider silk proteins in her milk which is used to make “bio-steel”, a material which is stronger than Kevlar.
lWM1 TIL that the US Department of Education made around 51 Billion dollar profit off of government student loans, equivient to the profit of PMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Citigroup and Wells Fargo combined.
JeDj TIL A British sailor in WWII escaped his submarine from depths of 171 feet and managed to get to the surface and survive.