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TIL The flight from Moscow to Anadyr is the longest scheduled domestic flight within a country - 9 hours 45 minutes. In order to enter the Chukotka region, travellers will be required to have a special permission entry form and it takes about 60 working days to process all the necessary paperwork

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p8mr8 TIL The lead singer of The Offspring (Dexter Holland) suspended his candidate-ship for a PhD in Microbiology to focus on his band. In 2013 he published a paper identifying microRNA-like sequences in HIV. He received his PhD in 2017.
nWV0d TIL pilot callsigns are assigned to you by your "buddies", inspired from something stupid you did/say, your name, or your physical appearance. e.g. "Rat" for someone short and ugly; "Alphabet" if your name is too long; "Caveman" if you enjoyed survival training too much.
KJjB TIL Johnny Depp’s first performance as Jack Sparrow earned him an Academy Award nomination. Roger Ebert himself reviewed: “There has never been a pirate, or for that matter a human being, like this in any other movie.”
vPVdL TIL Two months after Oasis's 'Wonderwall' was released, a band called The Mike Flowers Pops released a easy-listening version which was jokingly promoted as "the original version of Wonderwall". Noel Gallagher was later asked by his record label if he had actually written the song.
9wpxB TIL: Players on losing teams in the Japanese National High School Baseball Championship take home a pouch dirt from the field, as a memento of their fleeting time on the hallowed grounds of Kōshien, the field the tournament has been played on since 1924.