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TIL that long before creating Star Trek, 26-year-old Gene Roddenberry was a co-pilot aboard a Pan Am plane that crashed in the Syrian Desert. With several broken ribs, he helped save 22 people and eventually led them to safety.

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VMlb0 TIL about Mill Ends Park, the world's tiniest city park. It's a circle 2 feet (0.61 m) across in the median of a street in Portland, Oregon. It was intended as the site for a light pole, but when no light pole appeared, someone planted flowers instead. It was named an official city park in 1976.
kOGX4 TIL that a saxophone was among the casualties of the Challenger disaster.
96A7 TIL that a girl has eaten almost nothing but ramen noodles since she was 5 years old. She is now 18 and has the equivalent health of an 80 year old.
neGD9 TIL about the Theo Albrecht kidnapping and it was just incredibly unique! He not only manged to be freed, but chiseled his captors down in Ransom price then went on to win half what he lost in a lawsuit as business related losses!!!
JYvKm TIL about the Gordian Knot, a supposedly impossible knot to untie. An oracle declared that whomever opened the knot would become ruler of all Asia. Alexander the Great, unsuccessful at loosening the knot, simply sliced it in half with his sword, fulfilling the prophecy.