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TIL airline pilots have to retire at 65.

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nRrW TIL hay bales that are too wet have a higher chance of spontaneously combusting, and “excessive moisture is the most common cause of hay fires.”
p8VLA TIL Unabomber Ted Kaczynski said, in a letter, that he would stop the killing if his manifesto were printed. The Washington Post printed the 35,000 word essay, at which point Kaczynski's brother recognized the writing style and turned him in.
B77y TIL The hit song “Blinded by the Light” was written by and originally recorded by Bruce Springsteen, who made it by going through a rhyming dictionary and looking for rhymes and ended up being unsuccessful, but was covered by Manfred Man and became a #1 hit.
baM7 TIL the 1981 sex comedy Porky’s is the highest-grossing Canadian film of all time with slightly over $111 million
KemJ TIL of Richard Jewell-A security guard who, initially hailed by the media as a hero, was later considered a suspect in the 1996 Olympic Games bombing in Atlanta. Despite never being charged, he underwent a “trial by media” with great toll on his personal and professional life