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TIL King Charles & Prince William always travel in separate planes in case there is a crash, one needs to survive.

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Z8V8Y TIL The egg cell is the biggest cell in the human body and the sperm cell is the smallest
6E5Am TIL: that the Chinese government has an AI survelliance system that uses +20M cameras and facial recognition to track citizens behavior and monitor criminals. They officially named it: “Skynet” - because of Terminator...!
Brr5L At 7:52 A.M., May 20, 1927, Charles Lindbergh began his famous flight across the Atlantic. Here’s the Great Circle Chart he used to plan the flight.
nWrVo TIL that in the 1970s a person died due to gas in their colon exploded during colonoscopy with electrocautery. Colonic gas explosion is very rare these days, due to better bowel preparation (see the first citation for the fatal case study).
WrkB TIL During the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s, education about the disease was limited for political reasons. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop ended up infuriating members of both parties after he ordered that every home in America be mailed a letter explaining what AIDS was and how to protect from it.