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TIL People are longing for true friends

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pYn5Z TIL that adding gallium to aluminum makes it as weak as paper!
ADWnd TIL Left-handed people's brains are so different from right-handed that they are often excluded from many psychological research studies
9wrOD TIL that dog fighting is still legal in some countries, such as Russia, Japan, Honduras, and Albania.
wobJ6 TIL that before the fatal crash of Concorde flight 4590 - caused when a tyre blowout on takeoff ignited the fuel tanks — there had already been 57 recorded Concorde tire blowouts during takeoff - including a near crash in 1979
KbYR TIL that despite the claims of the play/movie “Amadeus”, W.A. Mozart and Antonio Salieri were actually good friends, supportive of each others’ work, and there is no evidence that Salieri obstructed Mozart’s career other than the fact that Salieri was more established and well known.