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TIL that a Russian airliner pilot let his 15 year old son fly the Airbus A310 setting off a chain of events in which resulted in the crashing of Aeroflot Flight 593 killing 75.

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REWw TIL The the term “Taco Tuesday” is legally owned by Taco John’s and they have issued hundreds of cease and desist letters demanding companies stop holding Taco Tuesdays.
1aDNV TIL that birds in general and crows (because they’re black to us) have something called Ultraviolet Vision that makes them colorful to each other
VxVG TIL about the Old Man, a 30 foot tree stump that has been floating around vertically on Crater Lake for 130 years and scientists aren’t really sure why.
loNWB TIL In a study, people were required to pour sugar into a jar, then label it as “Poison”. Despite having poured the sugar themselves, people later refused to consume it. They knew their negative feelings were irrational, but they could not get themselves to shake their intuition away.
VaN4 TIL that during the San Francisco Police Department Strike of 1975, the SFPD clashed with the law and the Mayor. Eventfully a bomb was detonated on the Mayor’s lawn with a sign reading “Don’t Threaten Us.”