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TIL it is physically impossible for a person to open an airplane’s emergency exit mid-flight.

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a8jLN TIL in the 5th century, a Chinese missionary named Hui Shen claimed to have found a land east of China called Fusang. It is now theorized that Fusang may have actually been North America, due to archeological similarities between the California coast and Fusang as depicted by Asian sources.
xeE5 TIL Tom Morello (RATM, Audioslave, The Nightwatchman) was born to a civil rights advocate and a Kenyan revolutionary. He also graduated from Harvard University.
yVQAe TIL Only Fans creators have been sued for falsely representing to the fans that they are communicating directly with and/or having a personal relationship with the “Models”. In fact, the fans are merely communicating with third party account managers.
gMVkb TIL that in 2019 a U.S. Navy spokesman, confirmed to TIME magazine that three specific widely-shared videos were real and captured 'Unidentified Aerial Phenomena', resulting in investigations.
NXbeQ TIL the earliest-known references to windmills are to a Persian millwright in ad 644 and windmills in Seistan, Persia, in ad 915.