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TIL in Google earth there is a flight simulator. just press CTRL + Alt + A

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Z1WR TIL James Cameron made the movie Titanic to get a dive to the shipwreck funded by the movie studio; not because he particularly wanted to make the movie.
Oon81 TIL Not being able to poop in public toilet is a condition called parcopresis.
nWyP7 TIL that the rarest event ever recorded was the radioactive decay of xenon-124 (an isotope of the element xenon used in flash lamps and ion thrusters in spacecraft), which was detected by a dark matter detector
Mek6B TIL most animal and plant species are able to generate Vitamin C on their own. Humans (and related species), Guinea Pigs and Capybaras are among the few that can't
RXvl TIL that in Hungary, there’s a term—"Kacsamesék generáció"—that translates to “the DuckTales generation,” referring to kids who were born in the early-to-mid ‘80s.