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TIL a person landed plane in New York streets twice to have a drink

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Z8ypa TIL that 70s prog rockers Ambrosia took the lyrics from a 1976 track, "Nice, Nice, Very Nice," from a Kurt Vonnegut novel. When Vonnegut heard the song on the radio, he wrote the band a letter that said, "Music is the only art that’s really worth a damn. I envy you guys."
6JEX TIL: There is so much iron in your cereal it can be collected by a magnet and your cereal will even follow a magnet!
ADmoB TIL that there are white rainb9ws that appear in fog.
awXJL TIL It's a myth rats/mice absolutely love cheese, they prefer sweet foods
jNA0R TIL tennis player Arthur Ashe was offered “Honorary White” status in South Africa during apartheid but he refused and explicitly demanded to be booked as a black man when he visited and played in South Africa.