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TIL that only 5% of the world’s population has flown on an airplane.

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nWjvW TIL: raccoons are native to North America, having been introduced elsewhere only in the 20th century.
gjDD TIL that the actual Navy pilot that flipped the bird at the MiG pilot in the movie Top Gun was Scott Altman, who later was selected an astronaut by NASA and flew on 4 Shuttle missions
9Xk7 TIL that shortly before 2 am on Feb. 6, 1858, over 30 members of the U.S. House of Representatives engaged in a fistfight which only ended when a hairpiece was ripped off one of the combatants, causing the melee to dissolve into “a chorus of laughs and jeers.”
R7RQQ TIL Bulgarians refer to bucket hats as "idiotka", idiot hats
BrLoW TIL that ants can easily survive being microwaved due to having a large body surface area to volume ratio and an ability to position themselves in between microwaves beams due to their small size.