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TIL that it’s possible to sail in a straight line from Pakistan to Siberia without ever touching land.

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GAD91 TIL that Aimo Allan Koivunen was a Finnish soldier in the Continuation War and the first documented case of a soldier overdosing on methamphetamine during combat. He escaped Soviet forces, was injured by a land mine, and stayed in a ditch for a week, after having skied more than 400 km (248.5 mi).
e0mKJ TIL in the movie "Home Alone" the producers thought it would be too mean to use a real girl for the pic of Buzz’s unattractive girlfriend so they used the art director’s son
BrG7K TIL Oracle founder and CEO Larry Ellison owns a Russian MiG-29. The United States government has reportedly kept Ellison from flying the MiG-29 in America because it's "considered a firearm"
W7aVN TIL about the West Virginia mine wars. “The largest armed insurrection in U.S. history outside the Civil War” organized by laborers against their enployers.
4rQX TIL an Air Canada passenger flight took a detour and dropped from 37,000 feet to 4,000 feet to help find a stranded yacht off the Australian coast. It took the passengers 25 minutes after the emergency beacon was activated to locate the yacht.