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TIL 8231 passengers have died in Aeroflot crashes, the most of any airline. Air France is second with 1783

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9YrWB TIL that Sunflowers are used to assist in clean up after a nuclear disaster. They are known as hyperaccumulators because they are capable of absorbing toxic heavy metals from the ground and have been planted at both Chernobyl and Fukushima to aid in soil restoration.
0wmLv TIL a standard NASA space suit costs a staggering 12 million $. It is capable of protecting the astronaut from temperatures ranging from −156 °C (−249 °F) to 121 °C (250 °F).
E1rDp TIL There's a plot of prime Tokyo real estate nobody will develop on because, after samurai was executed there, it's been connected to a bunch of weird accidents and deaths
E1Kyp TIL in one study that took place in front of an escalator and a parallel staircase, the placement of a motivational poster that promoted using the stairs, doubled the amount of stair use. After removal of the poster, the effect gradually decreased back to zero.
69e9w TIL: former LDS president Gordon B. Hinckley had a homosexual and prostitution sex scandal that made National news in the 1990’s