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TIL Charles Lindbergh's flight, while being the first solo transatlantic nonstop crossing, was not the first ever; that was achieved 8 years earlier by British pilots John Alcock and Arthur Brown in 1919

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DQMJp TIL from the 1970s to 1990s, the South African apartheid government conducted "Project Coast," a program where they investigated using recreational drugs, snake venom, pheromones, bacteria, viruses, heavy metals, pesticides, poisons, and more as biological weapons for both war and crowd control.
R7bAw TIL that filmmaker James Cameron reached the bottom of the Mariana Trench, the deepest part of the ocean, in the Deepsea Challenger submersible on March 26, 2012. He is the first person to do this in a solo descent, and is only the third person to do so ever.
nZW7 TIL Rabbits shouldn’t regularly eat carrots or lettuce, and that it is a myth that these foods are part of their natural diets
pZwb TIL during the Viking age many Scandanavians wore mini Thor hammers around their necks
m1nbP TIL As an adult, if you grow a new mole or if an existing mole changes shape, color or size, it is recommended to get it checked by a dermatologist to rule out skin cancer