› added 5 years ago

331

TIL in 2009 a passenger landed a multi engine airplane after the pilot died just 7 minutes into the flight

Read more cnn.com

via reddit.com

p8a4 TIL There’s a helium shortage. In a decade, we might not even have enough for silicon. Or for an MRI.
kJvG7 TiL Flea nearly quit the Red Hot Chili Peppers to teach full time at a music conservatory. The "most painful part of quitting" that stopped him from doing so was the idea of telling Anthony.
VB1lB TIL that the director of ‘American Psycho’ is the daughter of the guy who played Charlie Farquharson on ‘Hee Haw’
W7Edo TIL that the last war chief of the Crow Nation earned his title in Europe during WW2. He completed all four tasks required to become a war chief: touching an enemy without killing him, taking an enemy's weapon, leading a successful war party, and stealing an enemy's horse.
ax9L TIL During WWII, Major Hajime Fuji, a training instructor, presented his petition to serve as a kamikaze pilot written in blood; his wife drowned herself and their children so that he should have no conflicting ties.