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TIL that Max Martin, a Swedish songwriter and producer, is second only to Paul McCartney for number-one hit singles ever written

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D1XLv U.S. airlines have collectively grounded thousands of planes, with Delta alone parking 600 jets. In late March, industry group Airlines for America said that about 1,200 U.S. planes were parked. Experts estimate that worldwide, about half of the planes in the world are currently grounded due to COVID-19, analysts at Cowen Investment Bank say.
8e684 TIL while exact numbers are not known, estimates indicate that nearly half of the remains of the dead in the US Civil War were never identified. This resulted from burials along marching routes or battlefields, and a lack of personal identification for soldiers
XrG8 TIL in the 1950s, a married duo had a live BBC radio program where the husband would seemingly transmit telepathic messages from the studio to his wife who was in a different location each episode (underwater, in a plane, etc) and would then repeat it back. Even now, it is unknown how this was done.
gy8L TIL that when we get nervous, we overestimate how much other people notice our anxiety, due to the “Illusion of Transparency”. Luckily, studies show that simply being aware of this cognitive bias can make you more confident.
GdP5 TIL the Aral Sea (the 4th largest lake in the world in 1960) lost 80% of its volume by 1998 and went from a fresh water lake to being 3 times saltier than the ocean all due to a Soviet Era Irrigation Project