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TIL Halloween started around 2,000 years from an ancient Celtic festival to celebrate the end of harvest season. The Gaels believed on Oct 31, the boundaries between the worlds of living and the dead got a little blurry and the dead would come back to life and wreak havoc among the living

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YA7B TIL that in 1938 early aviator Douglas Corrigan was denied permission to fly from New York to Ireland. Since he was denied, he told navigators he planned to fly to California instead. 27 hours later he arrived in Ireland, telling officials that he must have mistakenly gone the wrong way.
4XxEX TIL there was once a woman who was 7'11". She married a man who was 7'9" and they had a baby who weighed 22lbs at birth. It was reported she lost 6 gallons of fluid when her waters broke.
ADPX4 TIL of Movile Cave. Life in the cave has been separated from the outside for the past 5.5 million years and it is based completely Chemosynthesis. The atmosphere deep in the cave it like an alien planet, and more than 30 of the species found inside cannot be found anywhere else on Earth.
6EaP7 TIL Garlic was called Russian penicillin during World War II because, after running out of antibiotics, the Russian government turned to this ancient treatment for its soldiers.
Br6db TIL the U2 Spy Plane, first launched in 1955 and instrumental during the Cuban Missile Crisis, is not only still in service for surveillance missions, but still also uses film for its high-resolution photography.