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TiL: In the early days of airmail a pilot, named Dean Smith, was forced to land on a cow causing his plane to wreck. It scared him.

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BrO5x TIL that the skeleton named Lucy, a part human and part chimpanzee from 3.2 million of years skeleton and contributed to the human evolution theory, was named after the song from the Beatles, "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" because the archaeologists who found her, were listening that song non-stop.
gMY4W TIL John Hall co-wrote the 1976 hit "Still the One" with his wife. They divorced in 1985 and he later remarried, meaning she is, in fact, no longer "The One".
xVk1b TIL the Horn shark lays conical shaped eggs with a spiral flange running around the outside, which enables the female to wedge it into a crevice, making it difficult for predators to access.
oOZL TIL that Lee Kuan Yew, the late prime-minister of Singapore was the only person in the world to bring a third-world country to the status of a ultra modern country in a single generation.
0dr7p TIL there are Carnivorous Caterpillars in Hawaii