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TIL of the Marikina Valley fault system. A fault system that passes through the densely populated Metro Manila.

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45vo TIL that in 1990 a wrongly-installed windscreen on BA Flight 5390 fell out, causing the plane’s cockpit to decompress and its captain to be pulled halfway out of the aircraft at over 17,000 feet. The crew held on to the captain’s body fearing it get sucked into the engine. The captain survived.
xGdw TIL of Miniatur Wunderland, the largest, most complex and most expensive model train set in the world.
oBLJA TIL of Alfred Nakache, a Jewish-French swimmer who held the 200m men’s breaststroke record, was deported to Auschwitz where his wife and daughter were murdered, yet came back to compete in the 1948 London Olympics
Wa1B TIL the Domino’s launched an ad campaign in 2009 where they pointed out that their pizza wasn’t the best it could be, and that they wanted another chance. As a result, the company had one of the biggest turnarounds in its industry in history.
5Aar TIL: Braveheart was set in the 13th century, but kilt’s didn’t become common until the 17th. The soldiers also wouldn’t have worn war paint at that time.