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TIL that, despite White Castle being founded in Wichita, Kansas, there are no White Castles in the entire state of Kansas.

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X09B8 Today I learned that 2013 aviation accident Mozambican airline LAM, on a flight from Maputo to Luanda, was caused by the pilot deliberately crashing the plane, resulting in the deaths of 30+ people. This led airlines to implement a policy preventing the copilot from ever being alone in the cockpit
EgWdw TIL The first hot cocoa mix (Swiss Miss) was invented to use up excess inventory of coffee creamer created for the Korean War.
b9jX0 TIL in 800 million years, photosynthesis will no longer be possible on earth and all animals and plants will go extinct. Single celled organisms will dominate the earth once again.
9w51r TIL the Voyager missions launched when it launched, so as to take advantage (for the purpose of gravitational assist) of a rare alignment of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, that happens only once, every 175 years.
VMr8p TIL that more than 1 in 200 Americans is missing a limb.