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TIL that the Latin phrase "Contagium vivum fluidum" (contagious living fluid) was first used to describe viruses.

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GY4GQ TIL of the "Gimli Glider", Air Canada Flight 143, a Canadian scheduled domestic passenger flight between Montreal and Edmonton that ran out of fuel on July 23, 1983, at an altitude of 41,000 feet, midway through the flight. Successfully landed with 0 casualties.
9w086 TIL Scientists have developed tactile hologram technology that can be felt and interacted
AN75d TIL Australia is wider than the moon
QNj5a TIL about Andarín Carvajal, a Cuban mailman that ran in the 1904 Olympic Marathon. He arrived at the race dressed in street clothes and during the race he stopped to chat with spectators, snatched some peaches from a spectator's car, ate some rotten apples, took a nap and still finished 4th
xVM0o TIL sarla thakral was the first indian women to be a pilot at the age of 21 in 1936, pre independence india. She got married at 16 but persisted to become a pilot. She had a daughter when she became a certified pilot.