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Possibly, but only with a lot of luck and some autopilot assistance. Amateurs have landed smaller private planes after the pilot became incapacitated, but outside of 1970s disaster movies, it has never happened with a commercial passenger aircraft.

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PmjE TIL The people of Melanesia independently developed a recessive gene for blond hair. This is distinct from the blond hair gene found in Western populations
wylP TIL that 2 weeks before Woodstock, a similar festival was held in Atlantic City. It ran well, on schedule with proper facilities, and many people say it was better than Woodstock, but it wasn’t filmed so it is mostly forgotten.
Me6Ya TIL that women in Babylon were required to have done prostitution before they could marry!
5Y7o9 TIL The word “sinister” is a word English took from Latin meaning “left handed”
oNnA TIL that there is an app called Budist that will let you be woken up by a stranger. In Russia it’s really popular and it will expand internationally under the name Wakie.