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TIL that one third of sea level rise is from thermal expansion (not melting ice)

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5yer TIL in 1973, a Libyan passenger jet having navigational problems wandered into Israeli airspace. When 2 Israeli F-4s intercepted the jet and instructed the crew to land, they refused because of bad Libyan-Israeli relations at the time. The jet was then shot down, killing 108 people.
VBoG0 TIL four multi-drug resistant fungi including Candida auris are ranked as critical drug development needs
pYr88 TIL about Nova Scotia’s remote Sable Island. The Canadian Government has planted 70,000 trees on the 26 mile long sand bar and one has survived: a scrubby pine that is decorated for Christmas every year.
QoA9 TIL that Senator Daniel Webster turned down two offers to be vice president by William Henry Harrison and Zachary Taylor because he thought the office was a dead-end position. Both these presidents then died in office.
pYdw4 TIL that Soviet General Georgy Zhukov oversaw innovations on the Mongolian front, including replacing gasoline engines in tanks with diesel. These developments helped perfect the T-34 tank, considered the war's most outstanding all-purpose tank.