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TIL Adam Rainer was an Austrian man who was the only person in recorded history to have been both a dwarf and a giant.

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58X8 TIL Continental Flight 1713 crashed just after take-off killing 28 people, due to perhaps the most incompetent pilot to ever be hired by a major airline. He had only 36 total hours of experience flying jets. Failed 3 previous flight exams, forgot procedure, had panic attacks, and crashed simulators.
WkQvY TIL of a soviet engineer named Adolf Tolkachev who from 1979-1985, leaked soviet military secrets to the CIA which saved the United States hundreds of millions of dollars in military research. He was therefore dubbed "The Billion Dollar Spy."
vZx8 TIL that less than one per cent of Sweden’s household waste ends up in a rubbish dump. 99% of it is recycled in different ways.
ANXvd TIL in 2020, Mossad allegedly smuggled a robotic machine gun piece by piece into Iran and used it to ambush an Iranian nuclear physicist's motorcade.
9YmEQ TIL Scientists were able to partially restore function to the legs of a paralyzed rat by implanting asparagus between the severed ends of the spinal cord