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TIL a survey found that 46% of men were either very confident (20%) or somewhat confident (26%) that they could land a passenger plane by themselves in an emergency situation, as long as they could talk to air traffic control. Only 20% of women felt the same (7% very confident, 13% somewhat).

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OV8R TIL that a 1998 HIV outbreak in the porn industry started on the set of “The World’s Biggest Anal GangBang”
pY0Rb TIL about John Du Pont, heir to the Du Pont family fortune, and the only member of the Forbes 400 richest Americans list to have ever been convicted of murder.
wopbM TIL about the US Navy's Marine Mammal Program which trains dolphins and sea lions to detect, locate, mark and recover objects in harbors, coastal areas, and at depth in the open sea.
kO5v5 TIL after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Japan built foldable submarine-launched naval aircraft to bomb U.S. western and eastern seaboards, the 18 I-400 class submarines stowed up to three Aichi M6A Seiran floatplanes, each could carry an 800 kg (1,800 lb) bomb 1,000 km (620 mi) at 475 km/h (295 mph).
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