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TIL that Charlotte Hughes celebrated her 110th birthday by flying on Concorde - the oldest person to fly on a commercial aircraft. When the Wright Flyer first flew in 1903, she was 26 years old.

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Ed4x TIL learned that 22 hours after the Nazis surrendered, the Russian people celebrated so much they completely exhausted their nation’s vodka supply.
Abvd TIL North Korean exists because Taiwan exists: China was prevented by the US 7th Fleet from invading Taiwan in June 1950, so Mao Zedong announced China would enter the Korean war with the invasion force originally intended for Taiwan, and by October this force saved North Korea from imminent defeat
KYJxR TIL that the Electriquette was an electric wicker vehicle available for rent at the 1915 Panama–California Exposition.
epKv6 TIL that the deepest scuba dive of all time was 1,090 feet, set by Ahmed Gabr in 2014. It took him nearly a decade to properly prepare for the dive. While the descent took only 15 minutes, the ascent back to the surface took over 13 hours.
XEx7Q TIL that sauerkraut is not actually German and is instead thought to have originated somewhere in Mongolia.