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TIL That the oldest operational aircraft in the world is a French 'Bleriot XI' built in 1909. It is kept in an airworthy condition by the 'Shuttleworth Collection' in the UK, and flies regularly.

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a8VQJ TIL of George Psalmanazar; a European man who rose to fame by claiming to be first Taiwanese person to visit Europe. He practiced a religion of his own invention, practiced made up rituals and spoke a made up language. His real name remains unknown.
pYNAG TIL A male Wyandotte chicken named Mike lived for 18 months after his head had been cut off, surviving because most of his brain stem remained intact and it did not bleed to death due to a blood clot.
JYXpk TIL that the average national IQ correlates well with GDP per capita and other measures of development. This paper claims that higher cognitive skills of a nation in general, and more importantly, its intellectual class, contributes to making it a richer country.
XNyr TIL A film titled “100 Years” starring John Malkovich, will be released in November 18, 2115. It is stored in a bulletproof vault which will automatically open for it’s premier at the Cannes Film Festival
BVQr TIL Agatha Christie’s books have sold 4 billion copies, making her the best selling novelist of all time, and her work ranks only behind Shakespeare’s and the Bible as the most widely published books in history