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TIL Air is both a gas and a fluid.

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lgAK TIL a French man fell in love with someone he thought was a female Chinese opera singer, and had a decades-long affair that resulted in a child… only to discover that the whole time the singer had actually been (a) male and (b) a spy.
GANQ1 TIL of Steve Leech, a milkman who was doing his rounds when he saw a shop on fire. He used 320 pints of milk to put out the fire, saving 7 other stores. He received the award for "Hero Milkman of the Millennium"
Yppex TIL children as young as three are able to recognize the same 'cute' infantile facial features (a set of traits known as the 'baby schema') across different species. They also find images of adult dog faces cuter than both adult cats and human faces.
6lB8 TIL during Australia’s first ever plane hijacking in 1960, the copilot Tom Bennett punched the lone, armed hijacker in the face and then ripped the wires from the bomb he was holding, disarming it. He and the pilot then subdued and handcuffed the man, before landing all 43 passengers unharmed.
BrWeW TIL Marathon runner drank urine and ate bats, snakes and lizards to survive in the desert after he got lost for 10 days.