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TIL 13% of the world’s adults – 630 million people – say they would like to leave their country and move somewhere else permanently.

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8aaVP The physics of boomerang flight
awyZZ TIL that despite holding the record for most best acting nominations (12) and wins (4), Katharine Hepburn never attended the Academy Awards ceremony, except in 1974 when she presented the Irving G. Thalberg award to a friend.
8kXV TIL that FedEx’s current CEO and founder Frederick W. Smith didn’t have enough money to keep the company afloat, he took the remaining 5k and brought it to Vegas and by Monday morning they had 32k, enough to fuel their planes and stay in business long enough for another round of funding.
R7Xx6 TIL Tony Bennett first ‘met’ his wife Susan Benedetto while she was in the womb. In 1966, her parents met the singer backstage to pose for a picture him whilst her mother was pregnant with her. Bennett said “It’s a photo we all laugh about, knowing the incredible turn of events that followed.”
vZyj TIL that NASA asked Buzz Aldrin to refrain from quoting the Bible on the moon