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TIL that there are many untouched plane wrecks in the UK dating from WWII, and that removing anything from the wreckage site is an offence under law

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gMleb TIL in the 1988 box-office bomb "Mac and Me", the wheelchair-bound lead child character was played by a real wheelchair-bound actor with spina bifida. In real life, when people asked why he was in a wheelchair, the 12-year-old would reply, "Vietnam."
yVxJ8 TIL that Tritium, vital for fusion fuel like in ITER, is extremely rare with only ~20 kg made yearly from CANDU type heavy-water reactors. It costs about $30 000 per gram, so most fusion projects plan to breed it from lithium due to huge supply shortages.
ADrj4 TIL The last Prime Minister of Great Britain to die in office from influenza was Charles Watson-Wentworth, Marquess of Rockingham, in 1782
Nyg8 TIL that surgeons in 2013 discovered a new body part
Z8VZQ TIL that there is actually a term for that creepy feeling when you drive somewhere and have no recollection—it's a form of automaticity called "highway hypnosis" and is a product of the conscious and unconscious minds focusing on different things.