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TIL that Cornish game hens are just baby chickens

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XEKQR TIL: Big Bird from Sesame Street almost died onboard the challenger spacecraft but was spared due to the costume being too large and unruly for space
mxnkv TIL Language of Jesus (Western neo - Aramaic) is now only spoken in three villages in Syria (Maaloula, Jubb'adin and Bakhah) and is getting extinct.
8aLjG TIL of the Heaven's Gate cult who believed an alien space ship was trailing a comet. Several dozen people joined the "Heaven's Gate Away Team" and committed a series of ritual suicides. Among the victims, Thomas Nichols, brother of actress Nichelle Nichols who played Uhura in the original Star Trek.
ZpZaD TIL In 1947 a man named Art Lacey bet his friend $5 he couldn’t buy a retired B-17 and turn it into a gas station. After a wild journey including a plane crash, alcohol smuggling, permit skirting, and a cross country trip, he won that bet and it stayed in place for more than six decades
p8eG8 TIL Aviation experts say African airlines have a terrible safety record but Ethiopian Airlines has always been considered an exception with a solid history. The previous fatal crash was in 1988 when a domestic flight hit a flock of pigeons and crashed, killing 31 people