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TIL in 1987, an Alaska Airlines 737 collided with a fish in midair. Today, the company flies a plane affectionately named the Salmon-Thirty-Salmon

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95PQ TIL that St Basil’s Cathedral, the famous colorful church in Moscow, was barely saved from destruction under Stalin. Every city planner and architect hired refused to cooperate in the demolition process, and some even served time in the Gulag for so adamantly protecting the church.
ogMo TIL of “The Widower”, a dish from Grantham made with 20 infinity chilies and claimed to be the worlds hottest curry. Only one person has ever finished it; he took an hour to finish it and spent 10 minutes of that time hallucinating due to the endorphin rush.
6E6aQ TIL the phenomenon of forgetting things when you enter a room is called "Doorway Effect". Crossing from one side of the door to the other side causes a mental block in your brain to erase the old memory and make a room to a new one
kJLWW TIL the first spacewalk was plagued with issues including Alexei's feet coming out of his boots, not being able to fit back inside the capsule, and landing in a forest in winter without a heater, waiting over a day for rescue
4Pw TIL due to the long exposure limitations of Victorian photography, the mothers of children getting a portrait done would be camouflaged into the scenery.