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TIL you can safely land a helicopter from high altitude without engine power.

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4XZD6 TIL that the movie 'Salt of the Earth' which is based in a true story of a 15 month-long strike and it was blacklisted by Hollywood because the writer, the director and the producer were alleged members of the Communist party and the actress Rosaura Revueltas was deported for being in this movie,
Pjlw TIL of Robert de La Rochefoucauld, a French saboteur during WWII. He once hid explosives inside loaves of bread and blew up a Nazi munitions plant. Captured, he feigned a seizure in his cell and when a guard opened the door, hit him with a table leg, broke his neck, shot 2 other guards and escaped.
R7y4l TIL All grapes start out green. The white and red varieties start changing mid-summer.
DLkr TIL the last Emperor of Ethiopia was deposed in 1975, almost 1000 years after the first Emperor was crowned.
Z174 TIL Robot is Czech for serf labor and Asimov was the first to use the word Robotics