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TIL mosquitoes are most attracted to type O blood

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BgnOk TIL a Boeing chief test pilot improvised a barrel roll in new, untested 707 prototype during a public event. When his boss asked him what he thought he was doing rolling the plane, he replied, “I’m selling airplanes.”
nnx9 TIL that those plane trails in the sky are caused by condensation, and there’s a conspiracy theory that believes they are chemicals sprayed by the government.
78a0P TIL that a man accidentally got shot in the head by a particle accelerator back in 1978 and is still alive
M777A TIL "Fox scents" are so potent that a small leak from a lab resulted in a building evacuation
X0Dok TIL In 1965, an excavation team discovered the Sword of Goujian in a tomb in Hubei, China. Encased in a nearly air-tight wooden box next to a skeleton. The sword is over 2500 years old but was in perfect condition, test affirmed that the blade could easily cut a stack of twenty pieces of paper.