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TIL: Over the next 20 years, a new pilot will need to be trained and ready to fly a commercial airliner every 15 minutes in order to meet demand.

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OodAX TIL 50-80% of our oxygen comes from plants and bacteria in the ocean which is more than the amount all tropical rainforests on land produce combined
ppeA TIL that despite being a quarter of a million words long, Melville managed to use a unique word (a word that’s only used once in the novel) per every 12 words in Moby Dick.
W7vWL TIL John Nash's son, John Charles Nash, also has a PhD in mathematics and lives with schizophrenia.
adWb TIL there are many cases of Canadians who find out they never had Canadian citizenship because they were born in a U.S. hospital.
xVNBg TIL that Killifish eggs can survive a trip through a bird's digestive system, spreading the fish to other places when the birds poop them out.