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TIL there are no mosquitoes in Iceland

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N7NaQ TIL about Dr.Beatrice 'Tilly' Shilling who, during the Battle of Britain, invented a device preventing fighter planes engines from shutting down during negative G maneuvers. The device became known as "Miss Shilling's orifice".
W70kX TIL There is an Airlines Special Service Request code called DPNA which alerts airlines that a passenger with intellectual or development disability is travelling and would need special assistance/attention. This code was introduced by IATA in 2008, but many are not aware of it.
4Xdd6 TIL a study of prayer for cardiac bypass patients found that prayer had no effect on recovery and that patients who knew they were being prayed for actually had more complications
9w6m7 TIL Peter O'Toole once had an abominable MacBeth debut that drew "fits of laughter" and had "a dimly lit collection of black plastic phalluses swaying in the wind"
D1O0Y TIL of nominative determinism, which is a hypothesis that people tend to gravitate towards areas of work that fit their names. An example of this is Daniel Snowman, who wrote a book on polar exploration.