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TIL In 2019, the Wuhan Greenland Center under construction had its height scaled back from 636m to less than 500m

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NP5E TIL archeologists can determine the region of the world a skeleton is from by looking at the isotopes in the teeth.
7rnXp TIL of Federal Express Flight 705. In April 1994, a disgruntled, suicidal employee tried to hijack and down the plane, brutally attacking the crew with a hammer. The wounded captain put the DC-10 in a dive and rolled it to incapacitate the attacker before landing successfully.
Oo4Pa TIL as a child, president Woodrow Wilson grew up in the South during the American Civil War. His oldest memory was of him playing in his yard at the age of three, when he heard a passerby announce in disgust that Abraham Lincoln had been elected and that a war was coming.
1aWYP TIL That shuffles music playlists aren’t truly random because it would feel less random to humans.
J1O4V TIL that Sam Raimi was offered to be the director of Spider-Man (2002) because of his acting role in a short film titled "Indian Summer."