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kOa8g TIL: Southwest Airlines once slid off a runway in Burbank, California and into city streets. After the incident, Southwest was billed for the emergency services response. Southwest refused to pay, citing taxes paid to the city entitled them to use of the services.
n7VG TIL that Roy Sullivan, a park ranger, was struck by lightning seven times in his career, but ended up shooting himself at age 71
ZpGYp TIL chemist Sherwood Rowland won the Nobel Prize for discovering that CFCs damage the ozone, which shields Earth from UV radiation. His work led to the Montreal Protocol, a global treaty to phase out CFCs, helping heal the ozone.
78pNP TIL Neptune has only made one rotation around the sun since its discovery in 1846
MegvV TIL that George Orwell's use of 2+2=5 as a catchphrase of the dystopian government in his book 1984 is based on Joseph Stalin's use of that equation in propaganda. Soviet posters declared "2 + 2 plus the enthusiasm of the workers = 5" long before Orwell wrote his novel.