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TIL Queen Victoria smoked pot to ease the pain of childbirth

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WBpd TIL in 1987, a former airline worker shot his boss mid-flight, causing the stewardess to tell the pilot “We have a problem!”. The pilot asked “What kind of problem?” and at that moment, the man shot the stewardess dead & announced “I’m the problem” before murdering the pilots and crashing the plane
GAXvJ TIL vasectomy can fail
7r7nZ TIL about LIDAR, similar to SONAR and RADAR, this technology bounces light off of the Earth to map features of the land. Even peering through dense forest, it's changing how all sorts of fields of study see the land's topography.
0dOMR TIL About 3D Printing Homes
8a0g8 TIL that German actress Marlene Dietrich was bisexual, and had a romantic involvement with poet Mercedes de Acosta.