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TIL that in 2006, a woman farted on a plane and tried to cover up the smell by lighting matches, causing an emergency landing.

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negA7 TIL there are sea angels in the Arctic Ocean. From 2017, so this is old news, but they're beautiful and majestic. Naked mollusks that feed on sea butterflies.
65XQ TIL of a now closed down amusement park that responsible for at least 6 peoples deaths. They even had to offer it’s own employees a hundred dollars to test out one of the waterslides.
p8ELp TIL that young Spotted Salamanders are the only vertebrates known to host algae inside their cells making them technically photosynthetic
wLv66 TIL: Albuquerque held a funeral for Walter White to celebrate the series finale of Breaking Bad
PZKg TIL North Korea has numerous concentration camps that are frighteningly similar to Auschwitz. Torture is abundant with 30% of most prisoners having some sort of facial injury. Human experimentation is preformed on unwilling prisoners. Meals are very bare and the “cells” are made out of dried mud.