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TIL Cheetah's Black Tear Marks on Their Face Help Draw Sunlight Away from Their Eyes

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jxgQ TIL in 1978, a landing gear indicator light malfunctioned on a passenger jet approaching Portland, OR. In a holding pattern, the crew spent over an hour inspecting the issue until the jet ran out of fuel and crashed, killing 10 people. The landing gear had actually been down all along.
5VxNP TIL that on three occasions between 1922 and 1933, the Coca-Cola Company was offered the opportunity to purchase the Pepsi-Cola Company, which it declined on each occasion.
1aQV TIL the world’s oldest functioning light bulb was built in 1900 and is still burning.
788Kx TIL Malika Oufkir, daughter of a Moroccan politician who failed at the coup d'etat in 1977, and her mother and siblings spent 15 years in the desert prison before escaping in 1991.
j5Np TIL a Canadian-based company, as a joke, started selling canned fresh air, but the product became lucrative when marketed in China. They package compressed air from the Rocky Mountains into aluminum cans that sell for $10-$20 each.