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TIL Airbus 380 has around 500km (310 miles) of wire cabling

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VMOXQ TIL that the Beatle’s song Blackbird is about a black woman during the civil rights era.
MoZV TIL 10-18 million Africans were taken by Arab slavers. This is more than the 12 million Africans shipped in the Atlantic slave trade, and 16-30 times more than the 600,000 slaves imported to America since 1620, which is less than the more than 1 million whites enslaved by Ottoman vassals.
RMD4 TIL 70% Britain’s land today is still owned by an 0.6% aristocratic elite, and they are mostly the same families who owned it in the 19th century.
m9Ap TIL: King Arthur Flour Company is 100% owned by its employees, who receive stock and shares of the profits
gMEE4 TIL of Lucy Ann Johnson, a woman who disappeared in September 1961. Her husband reported her missing in 1965, and he was suspected of her murder. In 2013, Johnson was found alive. She said that she had left because her husband had been abusive.