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TIL: Delivering pizza is more dangerous than firefighting.

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ggE4 TIL that in 2002, Boeing delivered a 767 aircraft to China for use as President Jiang’s “Air Force One.” Chinese test pilots discovered a reported 20-30 extremely sophisticated surveillance devices embedded into sensitive areas of the plane, including the Presidential bedroom.
a6nN TIL that prior to 1970 keyboards did not have an “!” To type it you had to hit “period, backspace, apostrophe”
DKLv TIL Dr. Dre made almost $20 per second in 2014
D1ElV TIL Lab Mice are unintentionally bread with long telomeres which could invalidate most studies involving mice.
xXL7 TIL there used to be a real horse-sized duck - the Dromornis Stirtoni