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TIL When Ethiopian Airlines flight 702 was hijacked and flown to Geneva, the Swiss Air Force did not respond because the hijacking occurred outside of normal business hours

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7rL5x TIL 99.9% of calico cats are female due to the X chromosome.
PBZn TIL Abraham Lincoln signed the Morrill Act in 1862 which created a system of land-grant colleges and universities that revolutionized higher education in the United States and helped the country become the scientific and engineering powerhouse it is today
0dJVA TIL that -40 degrees is the only temperature that is the same in Fahrenheit and Celsius
dDyy8 TIL that in 2004, two male chinstrap penguins, Roy and Silo, after performing mating rituals, formed a pair at New York's Central Park Zoo. One of them tried to hatch a rock, for which a keeper eventually substituted a fertile egg. Roy and Silo then hatched and raised the chick, named Tango.
9YGJM TIL that the letter K was effectively dropped from the Welsh language in the late 1500s, simply because the (English) printers didn't have enough Ks for the newly translated Welsh New Testament; the translator instructed them to use Cs instead and the convention stuck.