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TIL Patrick Duffy, star of Man From Atlantis, wrote a book about his title character nearly 40 years later..

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W7XVo TIL Helios 522 was a case of a "Ghost Plane", the cabin didn't pressurize and all but one on board passed out from hypoxia. The plane circled in a holding pattern for hours driven by autopilot before flight attendant Andreas Prodromou took over the controls, crashing into a rural hillside.
oBnbA TIL that London black cab drivers must first pass The Knowledge, a multi-sequence oral exam requiring memorization of all 25,000 street names, landmarks, and points-of-interest in a 6 mile radius from London center.
p8egO TIL: The only state governor to be assassinated was Kentucky’s William Goebel. He was shot soon after the election ended, and was sworn into office while on his death bed. His only official business as governor was to call off the militia looking for the person who shot him.
D1Rbj TIL only 1.8% of Americans make over $400,000 a year.
VEwB TIL that in Disney universe, if an animal character wears clothes, he or she can own an animal character that doesn’t (courtesy of dr Neil DeGrasse Tyson)