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TIL in 1928 a mail plane crashed into Georgia's Stone Mountain. The pilot not only survived the crash, but manually picked up the mail and descended the mountain himself.

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EgD5P TIL there’s a Japanese schoolyard song about Tanuki’s testicles swinging freely, even without wind. Also learned the legendary Tanuki has 8 special traits; one of them being an oversized scrotum that symbolizes financial luck. Bit disappointed this wasn’t incorporated in Tanooki Mario.
Dv6v TIL Cornell University requires students to take a swimming test at orientation. If they fail, they have to take a Beginning Swimming class.
7rXab TIL there is a cavernous 40-foot tall basement underneath the Lincoln Memorial excavated during its construction. At one point it was open to the public, before being closed after asbestos was found by a tourist. As recently as 2017, it was proposed the basement should be converted to a museum.
g4VX TIL Sri Lanka and India were connected by a faint 50 kilometer long sandbar that existed until 1480 when a storm broke it. People used to walk the wispy sandbar from the mainland to the large island in the Indian Ocean, losing sight of the land masses. Scientists still argue as to how it was formed.
mxk9E TIL that Queen Anne of England was pregnant 17 times. The first time at the age of eighteen, and the last at the age of thirty-four. She either miscarried or gave birth to stillborn babies. One child died under a year, another at a year and a half, and the oldest died at the age of eleven in 1700.