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TIL a 747 is made up of 6,000,000 parts
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TIL the band Badfinger (early 70’s) had all their money stolen in a bad business deal and the two leading members committed suicide.
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TIL that the Prophet Mohammed considered sex without foreplay an act of cruelty, and any man who neglected it an animal.
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National Geographic Explorer Olivier Nsengimana has set out to rescue captive grey-crowned cranes. Along with his team, he began a program taking cranes out of captivity and placing them back into their natural habitat.
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TIL Gene Roddenberry, creator of Star Trek, was once in a plane crash in the desert in Syria. With two broken ribs, he repeatedly went back into the burning plane to evacuate passengers, then organized search teams to look for civilization.
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TIL in the early 1990s Amsterdam airport came up with an ingenious design “to etch an image of a black house fly” to reduce spillage in men’s wall mounted urinals. The result: spillage was 80% reduced. Lesson learnt- If you give men a target, it turns out, they can’t help but aim at it.