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TIL Crocodiles Do Not Die of Old Age

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lorBA TIL Adam Mattocks is the only aviator to bail out of a B-52 cockpit without an ejector seat and survive. The B-52, carrying two 3.8-megaton H-bombs, crashed in North Carolina. Upon reaching an Air Force base to explain his story, Mattocks, an African-American, was arrested for stealing a parachute.
nejj9 TIL Japan has the world most punctual railways. Their average delay is 18 seconds.
8aogV TIL death row prisoners of Tennessee can choose between death by lethal injection or death by electric chair
9YXV6 TIL Bhutan is the worlds only carbon negative country, every year it removes more carbon from the atmosphere than it produces. It achieved this by powering itself from hydroelectricity, banning log exporting, and amending it’s constitution to legally protect its forested area from dropping below 60%
0w8YA TIL, Joseph Beyrle, an American Paratrooper, fought for both the US and the Soviet Union in WW2. He was captured in Normandy, sent to a POW Camp, escaped, joined the Red Army and liberated the camp he had just escaped from. He later met Marshal Zhukov and won the Purple Heart for his Service.