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TIL an 80 year old woman landed a plane successfully after the pilot suffered a heart attack mid-flight.

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QN9Ye TIL Bolivia has experienced more than 190 coups d'état and revolutions since its independence was declared in 1825
oBnmR TIL: Katherine Johnson - BY HAND - She calculated rockets trajectories by hand. Buzz Aldrin trusted NO-ONE else. Not even their computers.
rR8Zw TIL that the marital difficulties of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI were due to her exceptionally narrow vagina and his overlarge penis; both Habsburg and Bourbon elites discussed the problem in detail
nWwX7 TIL The richest man in the world is built around $38B in government funds.
xJ1k TIL during development of the Star Wars prequels, George Lucas was warned by his animation team that the character Jar Jar Binks came across poorly. Lucas responded by saying he specifically wanted to keep the character in to appeal to small children age 12 and younger