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TIL Canadian lottery winners must correctly answer a math question without using a calculator before they can claim their winnings

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OoowR 26-year-old Kate McWilliams has become one of the world's youngest commercial airline captains, flying with Easyjet. Her co-pilot is Luke Elsworth, 19.
VjEZ TIL of the Marmite Crisis (Marmageddon) of 2012-13 in New Zealand. After a cooling tower at the only factory broke down, Marmite was dubbed “Black Gold”. Value of jars increased to over NZ$800 on auction sites.
kOa8g TIL: Southwest Airlines once slid off a runway in Burbank, California and into city streets. After the incident, Southwest was billed for the emergency services response. Southwest refused to pay, citing taxes paid to the city entitled them to use of the services.
4XvYw TIL The three organs that give electric eels the ability to generate electricity take up four fifths of its body. They can also control their victim's nervous system and muscles via electrical pulses, so they can keep prey from escaping or force it to move so they can locate its position
5lNR TIL Ernest Hemingway during World War II went out to sink German submarines off the coast of Florida on his 38-foot wooden fishing boat.