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TIL that on many major airlines, a pilot must eat a different in-flight meal to his co-pilot to minimise the risk of food-related illnesses compromising the flight.

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01N TIL that Freddie Mercury designed the Queen “crest”.
xDgw TIL in 1990, during an exchange of punches in a wrestling match between Vader and Stan Hansen, Stan poked Vader’s right eye, which caused it to pop out of its socket. After pushing the eye back into its socket and holding it in place with his eyelid, Vader continued until the match was called off.
DQdQD TIL the number of banking tellers in the US rose from 300,000 to 600,000 with the introduction and spread of ATMs
R7Yll TIL:Kurt Cobain didn't know what Teen Spirit was until months after the song "Smells Like Teen Spirit" came out.
XJgr TIL a coal power station puts 100 times more radiation into the air than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy