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TIL the lead singer from Iron Maiden piloted the plane during their 2008 world tour.

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5V868 TIL Ontario's boundary with the United States runs 2700 kilometers on water and only about one kilometer on land.
87na TIL there’s a theory which argues that intelligent alien life ignores Earth in order to keep from interrupting our natural evolution and development. It is called the “Zoo hypothesis”.
WkgLL TIL astronaut Wally Schirra would take pictures of his frozen pee as it floated through space, glinting with sunlight. The pee-flakes looked like a beautiful starfield, he said. One astronomer saw a photo & asked what constellation it was, and Schirra said "Jocelyn, that's the constellation Urion."
N7KoE TIL prolific film actor John Carradine died after climbing the 328 steps of Milan's cathedral at the start of a European vacation. His actor son David was with him, reading Shakespeare to him when he succumbed, and John's final words were reportedly "Milan: What a beautiful place to die"
wLrvP TIL that Iceberg B-15 was the world's largest recorded iceberg. It measured around 295 kilometres (183 mi) long and 37 kilometres (23 mi) wide, with a surface area of 11,000 square kilometres (4,200 sq mi)—larger than the whole island of Jamaica.