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TIL Bears are attracted to duct tape.

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JlE1 TIL that typically a Boeing 747 carries 416 passengers, but when a group of Ethiopian refugees were evacuated in 1991 they managed to fit 1,122 people on board. They originally planned to board 760 people, but got to 1,122 because “ the passengers were so light”.
7gg7 TIL Samsung’s chairman went on a three day rant to his hundreds of executives in a German hotel conference room. Samsung took his speech, turned it into a book about management and used it as its guiding principles from there on in.
Z8QL4 TIL that John Fiedler, the original voice of Piglet, died one day after Paul Winchell, the original voice of Tigger, in 2005.
oRW17 TIL that the Earth has been in an ice age for the past 2.58 million years, known as the Quaternary Glaciation.
Z8pkp TIL that by law, no United States officer can outrank George Washington. He was posthumously promoted to Six-Star General in 1976.