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TIL in 2013, an 11-year-old cancer patient on her way to a camp for children with serious illnesses was removed from her flight after misplacing her passport. Just before takeoff her passport was found in another passenger's backpack, and the plane unprecedentedly returned to the gate to pick her up

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aBrA TIL, there is plan to extract 7,250,000,000kg of plastic from the oceans in just 5 years.
vapB TIL there is a poem in Mandarin Chinese that, when spoken, sounds like the same word being repeated 92 times. It is actually a descriptive story of a man eating stone lions.
vPXa8 TIL on Nov 13, 1946, NY, pilot Curtis Talbot and scientist Dr. Vincent Schaefer, working for GE Research, released three pounds of dry ice (frozen carbon dioxide) into the clouds at 14,000 ft. They looked back to see long streamers of snow. They had created the world’s first human-made snowstorm.
DnAv TIL The first man to fly and the first man to walk on the moon were alive at the same time. Neil Armstrong was 17 when Orville Wright died.
E6lX TIL Human fingers can feel objects as small as 13 nanometers. “This means that, if your finger was the size of the Earth, you could feel the difference between houses from cars.”