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TIL that in 1927, Lindbergh flew 3,600 miles solo across the Atlantic in the Spirit of St. Louis with no radio, no lights, no parachute, not even a windshield. Just a periscope, a map, a wicker chair, and 33.5 sleepless hours in a cockpit that looked more like a steam engine than a plane.

VMQ5Z TIL that in 1980, President Carter and Fidel Castro agreed to allow 125,000 Cubans to immigrate to America during an economic recession. Later, it was discovered that many of the emigrants had been sent directly from Cuban prisons and asylums.
jpJQ TIL that 71 years before Rosa Parks, Ida B. Wells refused to give up her seat on a train and was thrown off by a group of white men. She later cofounded the NAACP but was kept off the list of founders by W.E.B. Du Bois.
KYNW6 TIL The only known naturally occuring nuclear fission reactor was discovered in Oklo, Gabon and is thought to have been active 1.7 billion years ago. This discovery in 1972 was made after chemists noticed a significant reduction in fissionable U-235 within the ore coming from the Gabonese mine.
pY1jb TIL that in 1972, a 9th-century Viking poop was found in York, England. It showed Vikings mostly ate meat and bread and had worms in the intestine. The poop is now on display in a museum
OpLY TIL While watching online porn a guy discovered that his adopted cousin from age 8, Jessica, a girl his parents once tried to adopt after his aunt got sick is now pornstar Lexi Belle. He contacted her, she replied and now they continue to have a relationship