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TIL that Nepal Airlines have the worst safety record in the world, and have sacrificed goats to fix technical problems.

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epDnn TIL about Margaret Ives Abbott the first woman to win a medal in the modern Olympics, and also part of the only mother-daughter pair to compete in one Olympics. Margaret won at golf, her mother, Mary, came in seventh. Coinciding with the Paris Exposition, many were unaware they were in the Olympics.
X0A56 TIL orcas cultural fads. In the 1980s one such fad was wearing dead salmon as hats. It spread to three separate Pacific pods before suddenly going out of style.
7p5X TIL that in the book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the Tin Woodman is made of tin because his axe was cursed and one by one cut off all his limbs, head, and body. Each was replaced for him by a tinsmith.
eJmn TIL the passports of Hong Kong (SAR), South Korea, Israel, and Chile are the only ones to provide visa-free access to all of the European continent.
QB5X TIL the actress who played the Yellow Power Ranger also plays the (always naked) foreign exchange student in Not Another Teen Movie