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TIL NASA helped the airline industry save billions on fuel with one simple fix

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rRWo1 TIL the word quarantine comes from the Venetian "quaranta" meaning 40, for the 40 days that ships were supposed to stay off the coast in Europe to prevent the spread of the black death in the 1300s
xKOo TIL that Stephen Hawking claimed that the egg came before the chicken.
N7kEP TIL building walls in curves takes less bricks
9M4p TIL Microsoft Flight Simulator is 3 years older than Microsoft Windows
5VBnr TIL Eva Peron (Evita), wife of Argentina's president Juan Peron, died of cervical cancer at the age of 33.He never told her that she had cancer and was dying. Ironically, his first wife also died of cervical cancer at 28 yrs old. Doctors felt that he passed the HPV virus on to his wives.