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TIL that, in 2005, Nepal Airlines sacrificed two goats in front of their two malfunctioning Boeing airplanes to appease Akash Bhairab, the Hindu sky god. According to a spokesperson, the snag was fixed and the aircraft could resume their flights.

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lEDr TIL Cotton Candy contains less sugar than the average can of soda and was invented by a dentist.
nekeP TIL that in the 85 years since Pluto’s discovery, it has yet to complete a single orbit of the Sun. A single Plutonian year is 247.68 Earth years.
XE5nD TIL whale oil was used in transmission fluids as recently as 1972. Transmission failures soared when its use was banned.
El77 TIL that in a 1979 Woolworths fire many of those who died had refused to leave during the crisis, despite the sounding of alarms, requests from staff and even the smell and visibility of smoke; some even continued to queue at an abandoned check-out.
9no6 TIL that the United States led the world in forced sterilizations before Nazi Germany.