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TIL tourism in Albuquerque has boomed from selling Breaking Bad candy and bath salts that resemble blue crystal meth

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45vo TIL that in 1990 a wrongly-installed windscreen on BA Flight 5390 fell out, causing the plane’s cockpit to decompress and its captain to be pulled halfway out of the aircraft at over 17,000 feet. The crew held on to the captain’s body fearing it get sucked into the engine. The captain survived.
9yNm TIL that “pixel” was originally short for the term “picture element”.