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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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j6Jxj TIL about Cael Sanderson, the most dominant wrestler of all time. Sanderson finished his collegiate career with a record of 159-0 with only 9 opponents finishing within 5 points.
VMBDG TIL that Starbucks sometimes operates at a loss intentionally and clusters several locations in a small geographical area to become anti-competitive in the market.
454w TIL Carl Sagan wanted to include “Here Comes the Sun” on a message to aliens, but the record company was scared of extraterrestrial copyright infringement.
4Xp5g TIL Titanium is used in medical implants because it is one of the few metals that your body will not eventually attack as a foreign object. Because of this, eventually bone will bond to the metal without adhesives and grow around it.
DQw6e TIL James Longstreet’s (Confederate general and US Minister to the Ottoman Empire) second wife, Helen Dortch Longstreet, died in 1962 at the age of 99. They got married in 1897, he was 74 and she was 34. She was widowed in 1904, childless.