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TIL In 2003, a woman had a heart attack during a flight. The attendant asked for any doctor on board, and 15 expert cardiologists appeared, saving her life.

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7rrGp TIL if Mars' polar ice caps were to melt the entire planet would be covered in 11 meters (36 feet) of water
5Yaer TIL of the Targa Florio, an automobile race through small mountain villages in Sicily, where spectators sat, stood right next to, or even on, the road, leading at least one race car driver to call it "totally insane." The race was held annually for around 70 years.
D1Yge TIL the Macadamia nut has the toughest shell of any nut in the world, requiring 300 pounds per square inch to crack.
1ge7 TIL that in the movie ‘The Grey’, during the filming of an emotional scene in which Liam Neeson’s character pens a letter to his faraway wife, director Joe Carnahan urged Neeson to write the letter to his deceased wife, actress Natasha Richardson.
0wLNy TIL when praying mantis mate, the female bites off the male's head shortly after and then eats it's corpse for nourishment