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TIL: The impact on the airline industry caused due to the restrictions imposed on the 2020 hajj pilgrimage!

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QyXd TIL that Buddhists have been replanting decedents of the tree that Buddha reached enlightenment under for thousands of years.
wo41 TIL that Elon Musk, co-founder of PayPal,Tesla Motors, and founder of SpaceX, attended Stanford college for 2 days before dropping out and starting Zip2, a company which he sold 4 years later for 307 million dollars
Z8P84 TIL Pomp and Circumstance was originally composed for the coronation of King Edward VII, but after it was played when the composer received an honorary degree from Yale, more and more schools just started using it as well until it became the default graduation tune
awnB9 TIL that Marco Polo makes no mention of the Great Wall in any of his writings on China, which some people believe proves he never visited the country. This type of conclusion is called “argument from silence” and is a common logical fallacy.
x6VB0 TIL that a small part of southern Florida is the only place in the world where crocodiles and alligators coexist.