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TIL British writer Victoria Coren Mitchell saw a therapist to address her fear of flying, but the therapist later died in a plane crash.

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LQNMd TIL the ancient Nazca got water in the middle of the desert through an engineered series of 46 aqueducts running 12 km underground. They were built around 200-500 AD, and 32 of them are still used by local farmers today
Lkbd9 TIL Ottoman Sultan Bayezid and Tamerlane frequently trash-talked eachother by exchanging letters filled with personal insults
4XXKN TIL that Gavroche from Les Miserables, is a son of the Thenardiers
0da9y TIL, In 2009, the remains of an unknown Union soldier, believed to be between 17 and 19 years old, were discovered on the Antietam National Battlefield and identified as a New York volunteer, were found in the Cornfield, and were returned to New York for burial with full military honors.
pgBO TIL in Rocky (1976), Rocky 2 (1979), and Rocky Balboa (2006), Rocky’s pet turtles Cuff and Link were the same two turtles each time.