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TIL on August 19, 1980, a Saudi Arabian Airlines Flight carrying 301 people caught fire shortly after takeoff. The plane landed safely but when the ground crew opened the doors, everyone was already dead.

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NXVWb TIL that a riot broke out on St Scholastica Day, 10 February 1355, when two students from the University of Oxford complained about the quality of wine served to them in the Swindlestock Tavern. Around 30 townsfolk were killed, as were up to 63 members of the university.
YpRBA TIL a toilet cleaner in the Netherlands was advertised using the slogan "We, the people at Toilet Duck, recommend Toilet Duck." The slogan is still being used as today a general saying to dispute the independence of an expert when his statements align with his self-interest.
4jQJ TIL the director of the Guinness Breweries, became in 1951 involved in an argument about the fastest bird in Europe. The realisation there is no book for world records made him create “The Guinness Book of Records” that itself holds the world record as the best-selling copyrighted book of all time.
J1Qbk TIL about the Italian Futurist Cooking movement, which rejected pasta and had diners sit inside a mock airplane with vibrating engines to stimulate their appetites
Yb7Z TIL: Going to the bathroom is one of the most dangerous things a sloth can do. Half of all sloth deaths occur while they are climbing to and from the forest floor, which is where they poop.