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JYYbV Today, we morbidly wondered, do you get anything if you survive a plane crash?
v5Mx TIL Saturday Night Live invented the five second live TV delay because of Richard Pryor.
jNpQM Today I learned Shepherd's Pie is made with minced lamb or mutton, while one with minced beef is properly called a cottage pie.
DQ0jr TIL about William Hoy, the most accomplished deaf player in MLB history. He couldn’t hear the umpire’s ball & strike calls, & the stadium had no scoreboard for him to follow the count. So, the third-base coach signaled to him by raising his left index finger for a ball, the right for a strike.
e09yE TIL trees are mostly made from the air, not the ground. They take carbon dioxide, use photosynthesis to split carbon off to make most of their mass, and "exhale" the oxygen.