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TIL that Air Transat Flight 236 lost both engines over the Atlantic, and set a glide record for a commercial airliner of 120km as the pilot successfully made an emergency landing at Lajes Air Base in the Azores.

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VMb5m TIL that John Tyler is the only US president laid to rest under a flag not of the United States. His allegiance to the Confederacy and death during the Civil War resulted in his burial under the Confederate Flag.
QAZp TIL After both of the leaders of his squadron were shot down over Vietnam, Merlyn Dethlefsen flew his damaged fighter back through enemy air defenses to scare off enemy fighters, then knocked out both missile sites defending the target. Saving 70 of the 72 friendly aircraft following him.
yQYw TIL that a group of german soldiers planned a coup against the Nazi regime in 1938 but were told by the French and the British ‘forget it’ because they approved of the present situation in Germany and hoped to make an alliance with it against Communism
JYnyv TIL that musical prodigy Alma Deutscher was the subject of her linguist father's language experiments. He never told her the sky was "blue" in an effort to understand why ancient cultures never used the term for the sky. Her perceptions and name for the sky, "white", were reported in his 2010 book.
rNwke TIL that a central bank digital currency (cbdc) is not a cryptocurrency because cbdc's are controlled by a central bank while cryptocurrencies are decentralized.