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TIL that cast iron pans are a good source of dietary iron
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TIL that on July 23, 1983, Air Canada’s Flight 143, with 69 people onboard, ran out of fuel at an altitude of 41,000 ft. The pilot managed to glide the plane down safely as he was a very experienced glider pilot. 22,300 pounds of jet fuel had been put in instead of 22,300 kg.
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TIL that a bunch of people actually thought Stephen Spielberg actually shot and killed a triceratops.
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TIL Japan owns a larger percentage of US debt than China, and China only own 3.9% of the total US debt and 15.5% of foreign debt.
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TIL that an unforeseen consequence of London's Walkie Talkie skyscraper was that the building's curvature acts as a concave mirror facing the sun, leading to street-level recordings of temperature as high as 117°C. Parked vehicles have been damaged and a reporter was able to fry an egg on the ground
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TIL that John Lennon was so fed up with people trying to over-analyze Beatles lyrics and trying to find a hidden meaning in them that he started purposefully putting in meaningless nonsense into songs like "the Walrus was Paul" just to confuse them