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TIL that in 1948, aviator Jacqueline Cochran flew future president Lyndon Johnson 1,000 miles to his emergency kidney stone removal

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yVg7a TIL that a man broke into the Buckingham Palace twice in a month and the alarm was set off but dismissed as false alarm both times
0wBDv TIL Molly Brown survived the Titanic and was rescued by the Carpathia. Aboard the Carpathia, a battered Brown did what she could to help the other survivors, including raising money from the wealthy to help poor passengers. Her acts of heroism earned her the nickname "the Unsinkable Mrs. Brown."
nLwb TIL In the Bible, God sent two bears to murder 42 children because they had mocked a man for being bald.
VMOk8 TIL that in William Morrison invented the first practical electric car in the USA, in 1890.
wLE4J TIL that the largest, oldest Douglas Fir trees are real life "mother trees" from the movie Avatar - they send nutrients via soil fungi to the smaller trees around them, and they favor the seedlings that are their own offspring