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TIL A Qantas Boeing 747 once carried an extra engine on its wing between Sydney and Johannesburg

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LkAMr TIL, entrepreneur Suzanne Ciani was the first female to have a voice on a pinball game, specifically Xenon, through a vocoder, and was even inducted into The Pinball Expo Hall of Fame in 2013 for that work of hers.
BLjr TIL that The Pillars of Creation (as photographed by the Hubble telescope) don’t exist anymore. They were destroyed 1,000 yrs ago by an advancing supernova, but the light takes 7,000 yrs to reach us so they still appear intact.
j6nEp TIL Śmigus-dyngus or Dyngus Day is a celebration held on Easter Monday across Central Europe and in Polish Diaspora communities. Traditionally, boys throw water over girls on Easter Monday among other rituals. In some regions they strike them with pussy willow branches instead of sprinkling water.
lve1 TIL that John Wilkes Booth’s brother, Edwin Booth, saved the life of Abraham Lincoln’s son, Robert Lincoln.
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