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TIL John Gilpin, an amateur photographer, was testing his new camera lens at the airport and caught a 14 year old boy falling from the wheel well of Japan Air Lines DC-8

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X0e9r TIL that the longest perfectly straight stretch of the U.S. interstate highway system is on I-80 between Lincoln and Grand Island, Nebraska and is approximately 72 miles (116 km) long.
GYlp7 TIL cockroach farms grow billions of hem to be used in China to eat kitchen waste. After six months of their lifespan they are washed and dried to be sold for cattle feed or their essence to be extracted for medicinal purposes (curing oral and peptic ulcers, skin wounds and even stomach cancer)
ExMd TIL That people tend to overestimate their ability to effectively relay emotions over email
5Y8QR TIL The current Afghanistan head of state Ashraf Ghani is the first peaceful transfer of power since the Afghan state was founded
bb1p TIL: The role of Frodo in a 1981 bbc radio dramatization of LOTR was played by Ian Holm, who went on to appear as Bilbo in Peter Jackson’s films.