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TIL: In 1999, a disgruntled airline pilot stole an airplane and crashed it into the airline's remaining working aircraft, effectively crippling the airline

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1gD8 TIL that the hoax, Dutch reality show De Grote Donorshow, where patients competed for a dying woman’s kidney, was created with the intention of raising awareness about the lack of organ donors. Six weeks after the show aired 12,000 new donors had signed up.
6vrY TIL you are most likely to survive a trip to ICU with a severe infection in NZ and Australia than anywhere else in the world, despite an increase in the severity of infections. This is partially due to the fact that all patients have 24-hour one-on-one nursing.
Lkg0P TIL that during the Winter War, the Soviet Union bombed Finland, afterwards claiming they were dropping food to the "starving people of Helsinki" - the Finnish dubbed the bombs "Molotov bread baskets", and in return, called their own firebombs "Molotov cocktails", as "a drink to go with the food."
NXro6 TIL that Big Bird was originally suggested as one of the candidates to go aboard the Challenger shuttle.
0dWMR TIL: In China for about three years around 1900, a secret martial arts training club tried to overthrow the Chinese government & force out foreigners. Known to the West as "The Boxer Rebellion," the name literally comes from the fact that members fought unarmed using Chinese forms of unarmed combat.