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TIL pilots and co-pilots do not eat the same meal when they are working because if something is wrong with the meal, the other pilot will not be affected and can take over.

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Z8wp TIL that Martin Luther King, Jr. considered himself a Trekkie, convinced Nichelle Nichols (Lt. Uhura) to stay on the show, and that he told her that “Star Trek” was “the only show that my wife Coretta and I will allow our little children to stay up and watch.”
OKka TIL a homeless woman secretly lived in a Japanese man’s closet for a year without his knowledge. He began to suspect someone was eating his food and finally set up security cameras in his house.
dDAMQ TIL that Shalimar Seiuli, the sex worker who gained infamy when she was seen getting into Eddie Murphy's car, died after falling five floors after she locked herself out of her apartment and tried to use a towel as a rope to swing down from the roof to an open window.
b6l6E TIL Cassini was able to measure the change in diameter of the Sun's disk as Earth moved toward and then away from the Sun through a hole in a church, confirming Kepler's heliocentric theory. The same church hosts a fresco depicting Prophet Mohamed in hell being tortured and devoured by a demon
GxE5 TIL Roman Emperor Commodus was known to fight exotic animals in the arena, often to the horror of the Roman people. He once killed 100 lions in a single day. For each appearance in the arena, he charged a million sesterces, straining the Roman economy.