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TIL all aircraft in the Israeli airline El-Al are equipped with flares to protect against missiles.

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MdNW TIL a mason in 1700’s Jerusalem left his wooden ladder behind after doing some work on a church and now it can’t be moved without the agreement and permission of six different Christian leaders.
KO0G6 TIL Albert Woolson was the last surviving member of the Union Army who served in the American Civil War. He died in 1956 at age 106.
Akrd TIL in a study requiring them to write out “door” 30 times in 60 seconds, 68 percent of participants began to doubt that “door” was a real word or showed similar symptoms of ‘jamais vu’
OGjw1 TIL that King Æthelstan arranged marriages for several of his sisters to European royalty, including the future Holy Roman Emperor Otto I, making his court one of the most internationally connected in Anglo-Saxon England.
0d7V5 TIL that according to Utah public decency law, a man is considered nude if his genitals are "in a discernibly turgid state, even if completely and opaquely covered."