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TIL that in 2018, after a tanker truck fire shut down a freeway in Los Angeles, a taco truck opened up on the freeway

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d7bZ TIL that the Airbus A380 jumbo jet was so well insulated from engine noise that the pilots couldn’t sleep during their rest periods as they could hear every crying baby, snoring passenger, and toilet flush. To combat the problem, Airbus was considering piping ambient noise back into the plane.
GYrWE TIL there is a species of freshwater seal that lives in a lake in northern Canada, the only seal population to do so
og5L TIL emails over six months old can be accessed by the US government without a warrant, as they are considered “abandoned”.
LlE9 TIL the suicide rate increased 28% from 1999 to 2010 among persons aged 35–64 years.
78YrP TIL there is a stable population of rhesus macaque monkeys in central Florida. They were released on an island in a swamp as part of a jungle cruise attraction in 1938, but escaped the island because the tour operator didn’t know they could swim.