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TIL Weird Al Yankovic started a Volcano Worshippers Club in high school just to get an extra picture of himself in the yearbook.

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OnMa TIL a man named Jean Boulet safely landed a helicopter after the engine flamed out at 40,814 ft using a flying technique in which the rotor blades were driven solely by the upward flow of air through the rotor as the helicopter descended, called autorotation.
9wpxr TIL about Ettore Majorana, a brilliant young physicist who vanished without a trace in 1938. He was responsible for many discoveries in particle physics but never published them, leading others to get the credit.
J1pWV TIL that windmills used to be used to mill grain. From the US and only think of wind turbines and energy.
j6MME TIL that a district in India’s Punjab state requires prospective gun owners to plant 10 trees and take pictures with them as proof
v1G9D TIL that a marine scientist accidentally invented a way to make corrals grow 25-40 times faster, making large scale reef restoration a possibility