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e04w6 TIL World longest flight by Singapore Airlines from Singapore to New York can fly either of two completely opposite directions (over Atlantic or over Pacific) depending on winds and weather.
awGNb TIL that warmer seas and oceans increase the occurence of the organism Noctiluca, that creates the beautiful blue luminscence in seas and oceans. The latest finding is that the loss of snow and ice in the himalayas changes the ecosystem in the Arabian Sea.
gMPX9 TIL: When Hall of Fame NFL Running back , Curtis Martin, was 15 years old, he was held up with a loaded gun to his head. The criminal pulled the trigger seven times, but no bullet came out. On the eighth trigger pull, the gun discharged while aimed elsewhere
589k TIL: It takes the Earth (and the Sun) 226 million years to orbit around the Milky Way Galaxy. Which means Earth has made the orbit around our galaxy about 20 times since the planet is 4.5 billion years old.
m1nmv TIL fuel made from grass is called "grassoline"