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TIL airline pilots have to retire at 65.

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J16GV TIL that in one bestiality case in colonial Plymouth, sixteen-year-old Thomas Grazer was forced to point out the sheep he’d had sex with from a line-up; he then had to watch the animals be killed before he himself was executed.
9wBNQ TIL that the song "Hawaiian Roller Coaster Ride" as well as a few others in the movie Lilo and Stitch were sung by the Kamehameha Schools Choir, which is a private school system in Hawaii catering to native students.
0Y0v TIL the American Chestnut tree was almost completely destroyed by Chestnut Blight 100 years ago. Before the blight there were 4 billion trees, there are now around 100 mature trees left. Any new trees planted today are killed by the blight before they mature.
J1lOm TIL that Eros, the god of love and the Greek equivalent of Cupid, is one of the oldest Greek gods. He is older than Zeus and all the other Olympian gods, with only Gaia and Chaos being older than him.
NlV8 TIL that after Sherlock Holmes was killed off, 20000 people cancelled their subscription to the magazine it was published in and bombarded it and Conan Doyle with abusive mail.