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TIL airline pilots have to retire at 65.

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deDQ TIL that in the early medieval Catholic Church, priests accused of pedophilia would be publicly beaten, have their heads shaven, and then be bound in chains and imprisoned.
vwv4 TIL in 2007 a car burglar in Florida was running from the cops after being spotted doing his crime. In the escape he jumped into a retention pond to evade the cops. However, he was then eaten by a 9 foot crocodile.
daZ TIL that the average person consumes 0 spiders in his/her lifetime
v1Xn7 TIL, Students as young as six must use a 2,500 foot rickety bamboo ladder to attend school in a Chinese Southwest Sichuan Province.
roAw TIL that one of the London suicide bombers went back to the casher in a restaurant because he didn’t get enough change, just one hour before he blew himself up in the subway