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TIL flying has become so reliable that you could fly every day for an average of 123,000 years before being in a fatal crash.

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rRG1M TIL that Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull never took a lesson on flute and only started playing it a few months before recording Bouree. (He started relearning decades later after his daughter pointed out that he was doing it wrong.)
nRGr TIL horses kept in stables suffer from insomnia and stay awake up to 85% of the night. This leads to other issues like sleep rocking, sleepwalking, and night terrors.
9wlgM TIL Copyleft is a thing
9KyM TIL Thomas Jefferson wrote his State of the Union messages, instead of delivering them in a speech like George Washington. All presidents followed Jefferson’s lead until Woodrow Wilson resurrected Washington’s precedent in 1913.
kJr74 TIL every bite of cheese you eat contains over a trillion bacteria.