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TIL only 8 pilots are certified to land at Paro Airport, Himalaya. It’s considered the most challenging airport to land at in the world.

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EXyV TIL: There is a company that drills for oil based on predictions consistent with Biblical Flood Geology…. and It Hasn’t Found Any Oil…. I introduce to you, Zion Oil Corp
lNa7 TIL That a Syrian Bear had the rank of Corporal in the Polish Army during WW2, and after the War would be visited by former soldiers from his company and given cigarettes, which he would eat because there was no one to light them for him.
NL9P TIL that whale milk has 30-50% fat content and is often the consistency of toothpaste
WkRpX TIL: Alexander the Great never lost a battle
4XaZo TIL the idea for the Guinness Book of World Records was conceived when Sir Hugh Beaver (Managing Director of the Guinness Brewery) attended a party in Ireland in the early 1950s, where he and his hosts argued about the fastest game bird in Europe* and failed to find an answer in any reference book.