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TIL over 80% of the world have never flown on an airplane

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OPO1 TIL that NBC and AT&T used corporate and government bullying to destroy the life of the inventor of FM radio, leading to his suicide
GYAjQ TIL that the first Sherlock Holmes novel, "A Study In Scarlet" features an evil Mormon plot and Brigham Young in a villainous role.
kJjGE Today I learned that two 9/11 hijackers got their flight school visa approval letters in the mail... six months after 9/11
j6Kea TIL the director for the music video for the K-Pop song "Sonata of Temptation" by Ivy was sued by Square Enix on accounts of plagiarism for recreating scenes from the 2005 film Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children without legal permission.
9xQ TIL Flatworms all have a dagger-like penis that they use to hunt for food, but when it comes time to mate, the two flatworms will go about fencing one another in order to avoid becoming the mother.