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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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5EZP TIL Orange and Brown are essentially the same color, only differing in brightness.
j66bM TIL that two separate historical figures have died from laughter at a joke about figs. Chrysippus of Soli and King Martin of Aragon
Yxrv TIL that children in the Philippines host spider fights.
ne6QY TIL the US government helped to cover up and granted immunity to a Japanese unit which conducted horrifying and lethal human experiments on 200k-500k Chinese civilians during WW2 in exchange for the medical data they had gathered.
OopZ7 TIL that for much of the 20th century, the US state of Oklahoma practiced blatant sexism when it came to alcohol: women were allowed to drink 3.2% beer at 18 and everything else at 21, whereas men weren't allowed to drink anything at all until 21.