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TIL 2008 US Air Force Base B-2 accident, the most expensive aviation failure was caused due to condensation of water in air data sensors.

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GYNkg TIL Teotihuacan was the largest city anywhere in the Western Hemisphere before the 1400s. It had thousands of residential compounds and scores of pyramid-temples, comparable to the largest pyramids of Egypt. It contains a massive central road and buildings but oddly, no military structures
4X6Ko TIL of a woman born with 3 fingers on her right hand. After a tragic accident, she lost her right hand and later developed a phantom limb...with 5 fingers, suggesting her brain "knew" what a hand was supposed to feel like.
KwNa TIL there is a sandwich shop called the ‘Earl of Sandwich’ founded by the current Earl of Sandwich, and descendent of the inventor of the sandwich. Sandwich.
K1B TIL that there are natural alternatives to chlorine pools, which have plants growing in them to keep them clean
9w4Qm TIL the Bureau of Land Management uses trigger activated sodium cyanide traps to kill coyotes on public lands which inadvertently kill thousands of pets and endangered species every year.