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TIL Zildjian (cymbal company) is almost 400 years old

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WkYWA TIL that calling 999 from an Android device texts the emergency services with your location data
x64kk TIL Stars appear to twinkle because their light passes through our atmosphere and is bent and distorted by varying temperatures and densities of air
wLYA6 TIL that in 2001 while on a holiday trip to Kenya, the plane that Rowan Atkinson and his family were in started to go down after the pilot had passed out. Atkinson managed to take control of the plane before the pilot woke up. The plane landed safely
P1AWJ TIL a man found a winning lottery ticket worth $24 million in an old shirt just two days before it expires.
vNZ4 TIL there is a 36 acre artificial reef in Florida constructed entirely of tires. The “reef” failed as no marine life were able to inhabit it. The site is currently an environmental disaster. “It’s weird…it’s just tires as far as you can see down there.”