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TIL about Callin’ Oates: the emergency Hall and Oates hotline (+1-719-266-2837)

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XEJkQ TIL that in 1987, a West German teenager named Mathias Rust illegally flew a plane from Helsinki, Finland to Moscow, landed in the Red Square, and evaded the entire Soviet air defence system.
e0VWn TIL that the world record for most broken bones in a lifetime is held by Evel Knievel at 433 broken bones.
X0vxk TIL the catacombs of Paris hold the remains of over 6 million people.
ROGQ TIL that the recurrent laryngeal nerve in Giraffes is often cited as evidence of evolution, as opposed to the “intelligent design” from God. The lengthy 15 foot nerve takes an inefficient, circuitous route; It exits the brain, goes down and around the heart, then back up to the Giraffe’s voicebox.
aor0 TIL That during his Indian campaign, Alexander the great encountered a tribe that hadn’t discovered fire yet