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TIL the FAA has a lavatory ashtray as required equipment for all commercial jets

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BgJpK TIL about the Darwin Rock Sitters Club: A Group of Australians Who Sat on Rocks, Drank Beer, and Conducted Scientific Study. They hold the world record for rock sitting
yQJAa TIL During WW2, because Ireland remained neutral during the conflict, many Irish soldiers deserted and joined Britain's military to fight the Nazis. Ireland deprived these soldiers of pension, unemployment benefits, and public sector jobs (for 7 years) as punishment.
78JwM TIL about Jawhar al-Siqilli, an Italian sodlier-slave in Fatimid hands who gained his freedom after 40 years of slavery and worked his way up to becoming the viceroy of Egypt, there he founded the city of Cairo and the al-Azhar university, the oldest university in the world.
mWVy TIL German Chocolate Cake is not German, its from Texas, named after the “German Chocolate” used in the cake, which is also not German.
Oobk4 TIL dinosaur farts and burps were a key factor in the earth overheating 150 million years ago. Sauropods would release 520 million metric tonnes of gas yearly.