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TIL that the corporate jet version of the Airbus A350 has such a long range, that it could fly between any two points on earth without refueling, due to its 20,000km range (12,430 miles).

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R5lbQ TIL Between 1975 and 2010, the population of India doubled to 1.2 billion, reaching the billion mark in 2000. India overtook China to become the most populous country at the end of April 2023. India's population stands at slightly over 1.428 billion, edging past China's 1.425 billion people.
mWro TIL women experience significantly more nightmares than men and have more emotional dreams, a research found.
0wppv TIL a 2011 study from UC Berkeley found that Mercedes and BMW drivers were nearly 5 times as likely to cut others off compared to drivers in non-luxury cars.
QVYM TIL that before he was a celebrity chef and television personality, Alton Brown spent 10 years as a cinematographer and commercial director. He only left the business for culinary school because he found cooking shows “dull and uninformative.”
08J1 TIL that Colonel Saunders disliked what the KFC franchise had done to the food so much that he described it as “the worst fried chicken I’ve ever seen” and called the gravy “wallpaper paste”