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

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BVdK TIL that the producer of a TV movie on Hitler was fired for suggesting parallels between the climate surrounding Nazism and the War on terror.
bAGE TIL of the Peshtigo Fire, the deadliest wildfire in recorded history. It consumed an area twice the size of Rhode Island, but it was easily forgotten as it occurred the same day as the Great Chicago Fire.
6waZ TIL falcons sometimes become sexually imprinted on humans. In order to bred them, the breeder lets the male bird copulate with his head while wearing a special hat with pockets to catch the semen.
rRRxo TIL the famous Wayne Gretzky quote about "skating to where the puck is going to be, not where it's been" is actually misattributed to him. It was said by his father Walter Gretzky.
E1gep TIL that the original manuscript of "120 Days of Sodom" was lost in the storming of the Bastille. Sade believed the work was lost forever and later wrote that he "wept tears of blood" over its loss.