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TIL that Mr. Bean Piloted an airplane after the pilot passed out. He saved the lives of all aboard. Did I mention he slapped the pilot awake?

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W7J6X TIL Appenzell is a village, although it is considered a town, and the capital of the Canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden in Switzerland. Appenzell has no administration belongs to and is administered by the districts of Appenzell, Schwende and Rüte.
lAj1 TIL that It’s A Wonderful Life was a box office flop that caused the sale of its production company. It only became popular after the copyright holders forgot to file for a renewal and TV stations could play it all day and night without paying for it.
LGA9 TIL Louisiana State Penitentiary was founded as a slave plantation, and is still run as a prison farm to this day
9YAk6 TIL Sand is the most valuable natural resource on the planet second to only water. The annual world consumption of sand is estimated to be 15 billion tons, with a respective trade volume of 70 billion dollar
Lkxe0 TIL Sir Frederick Banting, the Nobel-Prize-winning discoverer of insulin, created the first private biological weapon research centre in 1940. Soon afterwards, the US government was also pressed to perform such research by their British allies who feared a German attack with biological weapons.