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TIL TSA officials at Dulles International Airport snapped a cellist’s $20,000 bow in half, then replaced it in the case for him to find later. By forcing it down, they cracked a part of the cello too

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OoVvg Researchers from University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Arizona State University found that if a car is parked in the sun on a summer day, the interior temperature can reach 116 degrees F. and the dashboard may exceed 165 degrees F. in approximately one hour — the time it can take for a young child trapped in a car to suffer fatal injuries.
Z84LQ TIL about George Welch and Kenneth Taylor who were some of the only U.S. pilots to get in the air during the attack on Pearl Harbor. They are reported to have raced back to the airbase that morning after playing an all-night poker game. They managed to shoot down at least six Japanese planes.
KYO7B TIL that Richard Gere was banned from being an Oscar presenter in 1993 when denouncing the situation in Tibet when he was announcing the nominees. This led to him being banned from visiting China and most of the main Hollywood studios blackballed him, so he mostly acted in independent films
YpjeP TIL farmers in Africa use beehives to protect their crops from the largest and arguably most destructive crop pest in Africa: the elephant. Bees can’t sting through their thick hides but they can sting sensitive areas like the eyes, mouth, and inner trunk - they hear the hive buzzing and flee.
jN1XQ TIL Jungles cover only 6% of the earth but contain over half the species on the planet.