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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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nWj1G TIL sheep, goats, llamas, and donkeys graze the O’Hare Airport property each season
NPMP TIL When it was discovered that Hasbro’s flubber toy was discovered to be toxic they attempted to incinerate the remaining stock (which didn’t work) then attempted to bury it in the ocean (it just floated to the top) and finally buried it under a new parking lot.
6E16Z TIL about Charity Hospital the second oldest hospital in the United States that was abandoned after Hurricane Katrina. New Orleans still spends $3 million dollars a year securing the building, after a $1.2 billion dollar hospital was opened to replace it.
OpXR TIL: When Carthaginian explorer Hanno reached the Ivory Coast ~600-500 bc, he thought Gorillas were a race of humans and tried to capture some. He ended up killing them for being too violent and took their skins back to Carthage to put on display.
oB0yR TIL that almost all mammals except for primates are red-green colourblind. This is because all living mammals descend from a small shrew-like species that lived in burrows and mostly came out at night, which had partially lost its sense of vision due to its dark habitat