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TIL In 1928 two AF officers flew to a record of 38,000 feet in a small biplane. The controls then completely froze in the -78 degree air, and with oxygen depleting, they waited for 20 minutes until the plane ran out of fuel. Now powerless, the pilot glided all the way down for a smooth landing

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QJm1e TIL of Magawa, an African giant pouched rat who helped clear landmines left over from the Cambodian civil war from over 225,000 square metres of land. He was capable of sniffing out the TNT in explosives, and could work much faster than humans since he was too light to detonate the mines.
v16YR TIL that the smallest acting democracy in the world is that of the Pitcairn Islands, currently at a population count of 50 residents, who are descendants of a small collection of mutinous British sailors and Tahitian guests.
Wka6X TIL that the British Museum exhibits various items considered to be stolen from their original culture with ownership of many being disputed.
KvQw TIL Netherlands being smaller in area than West Virginia, and having the fourth highest population density in the world, is still our planet’s second largest exporter of food and agriculture products, after USA.
XEe1j TIL that Viking loved to give their peers funny identifying nicknames like ' Skagi the Ruler of S**' 'Kolbeinn Butter Penis' ' Herjólfr Shriveled Testicle' or ' Eysteinn Foul-Fart'