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TIL That Only One Plane Was Allowed to Fly After the Flights were Grounded on Sept 11th 2001. Due to a man needing more antivenom from the most venomous snake in the world

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JPdV TIL that Penn Station was actually once an elegant, beautiful building that was torn down in the 1960s, which caused such outrage that it led to the historical preservation of many of New York’s buildings today.
6EBgZ TIL that the "razor" in Ockham's razor refers to distinguishing between two hypotheses either by "shaving away" unnecessary assumptions or cutting apart two similar conclusions. This means a solution with the fewest assumptions, not the simplest answer, is usually correct.
gMVBD TIL During the 1975 Apollo-Soyuz mission, to help USA/USSR relations, astronauts and cosmonauts played smuggled audio recordings of glasses clinking, laughter, and many female voices. Houston radioed to ask what’s going on. "Oh nothing,” they said. “We finished work, just having a party up here."
OoWpe TIL Japan is the second largest music market in the world after the US, in spite of not being a huge population. Physical sales are still huge there, with more record stores than the US.
XErer TIL if you put multiple out of phase metronomes on a movable surface, they will synchronize themselves according to what is called a Kuramoto model of synchronization