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TIL: in 1985, 747 China Airlines Flight 006 lost power in the #4 engine, and may have broken the sound barrier in a stall spin before recovering successfully.

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OoaG1 TIL that we say "redhead" since red was the only relevant color word in Old and Middle English. Oranges arrived in England after 1300 AD and only became a color descriptor after 1540. Carrots arrived in 1530 but were purple and yellow at the time, as orange carrots were only popularized after 1600.
xg0o TIL that tentacle porn was created because Japanese censorship laws prohibited the showing of human genitalia
M7V48 TIL that Albert Severin Roche, who was initially rejected by the French Army for being "too puny", was publicly called "the first soldier of France" by General Foch in 1918 for his heroism in WWI
yMv TIL That the chapter in which Barty Crouch, played by David Tennant, dies was titled “The Parting of Ways.” The first episode David Tennant played The Doctor in was also titled “The Parting of Ways.”
xVQk7 TIL of the Bonnacon, a mythological bull that would shoot caustic feces at hunters