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TIL that the first officer on Qantas Flight 32, an Airbus A380 named “Nancy-Bird Walton” that suffered an engine failure, applied to Qantas with a reference written by Nancy-Bird Walton

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DQe1v TIL the oldest active missing person case in the US is over 95 yrs old. 73 yo Marvin Clark, who on HALLOWEEN weekend in 1926 departed his Tigard, OR home to meet his daughter in Portland. A John Doe body was later found between the 2 cities in 1986 but DNA testing in 2018 determined it was not him.
epDa5 TIL Many plastic items in the grocery store have a set of three arrows forming a triangle with a number in the middle—but it’s not a recycling symbol. It’s a resin stamp indicating roughly the type of plastic it is. The petrochemical industry created it to make consumers think the item is recyclable
0LZM TIL out of the 50 most dangerous cities in the world, Brazil has 21 of them.
loR1G TIL, former Air Force Capt. Robert Salas, who was at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana in 1967 when 10 ICMs he was overseeing suddenly became deactivated - at the same time base security informed him of a mysterious red glowing object in the sky
v1apD TIL about the doughnut dollies who were women who served doughnuts to American troops in mobile clubs during WWII. Thanks to Great British Baking Show for teaching me something today