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TIL Singapore Airlines Flight 21 (formerly the worlds longest scheduled flight) was so long, that the airline had to install special lockers on the aircraft to store corpses incase anybody died en route.

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Z49D TIL that in 2008, 40% of German soldiers were overweight and unfit for duty. 8% were severely overweight
PdPw TIL J. Cole graduated college in 2007, but didn’t receive his diploma until 8 years later because he owed money for a library book he never paid for.
0w5RN TIL that Saudi Arabia is the first ever country to grant a citizenship to a robot.
vQb4 TIL a San Francisco biotech startup has managed to 3D print fake rhino horns that carry the same genetic fingerprint as the actual horn. The company will sell rhino horns at one-eighth of the price of the original, undercutting the price poachers can get and forcing them out
OGPvY TIL-Rain can affect your wireless internet connection due to rain fade, which absorbs some of the signal coming from the transmitter because its wavelengths are at a similar frequency to satellite, WiFi, and 4G and 5G signals.