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TIL that an aircraft like the Boeing 747 burns approximately 4L (0.9 gallons) of fuel every single second while in flight.

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W09L TIL Sir Richard Attenborough (John Hammond from Jurassic Park) and his parents adopted 2 Jewish-German girls 9 months before World War II broke out because their house had been smashed by Nazi’s and their father taken away
RNA4 TIL the CEO of Susan G. Komen for the Cure makes nearly $700K a year, about 25% more than other non-profits of comparible size, while only spending about 20% of its yearly funds on research for a cure for breast cancer.
e0MVg TIL that by far the most successful predator with a 90-95% success rate when hunting, is the dragonfly. This is in large part due to a combination of very high speed and their ambush strategy, allowing them to rush down insects before they know what to do.
Mvla TIL Japanese people answer the phone by saying “moshi moshi” (to friends & family) because foxes cannot say it.
jxj TIL 30 Japanese hornets can take down 30000 European honey bees.