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TIL when TWA Flight 1 crashed into a mountain in 1936, surviving flight attendant Nellie Granger followed telephone wires for 4 miles to get help and call the TWA office and notify them of the crash. Nobody realized that the plane had crashed before the call. She then walked back with help.

pGxG TIL that the voice actors for Mickey and Minnie Mouse are married in real life.
M6Za TIL that Creme Puff, the world’s oldest known cat, lived to be 38 years old. Born in 1967, and died in 2005.
JlPv TIL If you collapse underwater bubble with soundwaves, light is produced. It’s called sonoluminescence.
NLnJ TIL Hippo milk is pink.
690aZ Today I learned there's an island off Madagascar called Nosy Be, the chief city being Hell-Ville