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TIL about Aeroflot Flight 3352, a crash that happened as a result of a flight controller falling asleep and not informing a landing aircraft that the runway was occupied with maintanance personnel.

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oB5g8 TIL that Apollo astronauts may have found the oldest earth rock we know on the moon in 1971
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BLYK TIL for the film Dogma, Kevin Smith warned Jason Mewes that he needed to be on point due to the involvement of “real actors,” such as Alan Rickman. As a result, Mewes memorized his, and every other character’s dialogue in the screenplay because he “didn’t want to piss off that Rickman dude”.
5p8P TIL of Peter Fechter, an 18 year old East German who was shot by East German troops trying to cross the Berlin Wall, was caught in barbed wire, and bled to death in front of the world’s media, as police tried to throw him bandages.
OGave TIL about the Fire Lily, a South-African flower that only blooms after wildfire.