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TIL a University of Georgia graduate founded the school's eventual rival, Georgia Tech

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VeZD TIL The 2016 plane crash which killed most of the Brazilian Chapecoense football team was caused by the pilot failing to make necessary fuel stops. The plane ran out of gas while in a holding pattern at its destination airport and fell out of the sky.
Mekpa TIL that milk taken from cow's at night make you sleepier that milk taken from the day
544Q TIL while filming the movie disaster Ishtar, the animal trainer needed to find a blue-eyed camel. He found the perfect one at the first dealer but decided to shop around. Realizing how rare blue-eyed camels are, he returned to the first trader, who had since eaten the camel.
mx6kv TIL Tolkein popularised "dwarves" as the plural of "dwarf" to differentiate his fantasy dwarves from humans with dwarfism, for whom the correct plural was "dwarfs". The dwarf trope became so entrenched that "dwarves" is now widely recognised as the standard plural of "dwarf" even for humans
j7Xa TIL that France classifies books as an “essential good,” along with electricity, bread, and water.