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TIL that approximately 11% of people have a mental health condition globally.

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0w49L TIL that in 1986, Soviet pilot Alexander Kliuyev made a bet with his co-pilot that he could land the airplane using an instrument-only approach with curtained cockpit windows, thus having no visual contact with the ground. The plane crashed and 70 people died.
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