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TIL small piston engine planes still use leaded gasoline.

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7rj9Z TIL that a Nature photographer, Kjell Bloch Sandved, curated a collection of butterfly and moth images with interesting patterns on their wings that resembled all 26 letters in the English alphabet, as well as the 10 single-digit numbers.
x6EW5 TIL: "Stone gambling" is a thing in China, where you buy uncut jadeite stones from vendors to cut open to see if there is high quality jadeite. It experienced a resurgence recently due to live streaming where streamers record themselves cutting open jadeite they bought reigniting the craze.
p8VO4 TIL In 1612 at the funeral of Henry Fredrick, Prince of Wales a naked man ran through the crowd of mourners claiming he was the ghost of the recently deceased Prince.
yQ7nw TIL there is an animated film based on Titanic that was so bad, one reviewer described as "offensive to the Titanic’s memory"
XEN76 TIL: Eight spaceships can be connected to the International Space Station at the same time