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TIL a French convict used oranges painted like grenades to escape prison via a helicopter piloted by his wife who took flight lessons solely for the escape.

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R59V1 TIL about Terry Davis, a schizophrenic engineer who was"told by God" to create an operating system, resulting in TempleOS. And then there was that incident with alien artifacts on his X-ray.
p8rK8 TIL about "Brazilian Schindler"; Souza Dantas, an ambassador from Brazil in nazi-occupied France in 1940's, risked his life giving visas to hundreds of jews and others. Against the will of the Brazilian government at the time, he saved around 800 people from certain death.
1jxO TIL Soda is so corrosive, that without BPA or equivalent liner, an aluminum can would break after three days
yVVWV TIL that placebos have been found to be an effective treatment for pain perception. A placebo treatment given to people who chronically suffer from migraine headaches was found to be just as effective as a widely used migraine drug, according to a study published in Science Translational Medicine.
xVNLb TIL Boeing 737 Max airplanes Flight control run on, Collins Aerospace FCC-730 series computers, first built in 1996. Each computer features a pair of single-core, 16-bit processors that run independently of each other.