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TIL that at the 2008 Macy's Thanksgiving parade, this Happened

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P1Ogw TIL that before the atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima, a B29 weather reconnaissance plane called Straight Flush flew over the city to determine if conditions were favourable. Its pilot, Claude Eatherly later expressed remorse, received psychiatric hospitalisation, and engaged in anti-nuclear activism.
Y7j7x TIL 55% of the world's population aged 15 and older can't swim
Z8Y0a TIL the Beatles album, Abbey Road, was originally going to be called Everest but none of the Beatles wanted to fly to the Himalayas to take a photo so they just called the album Abbey road.
R7O4w TIL that speed readers were asked to read a text without knowing that every other line came from a different source yet they didn't notice it. In another study, speed readers scored 68% in a standard comprehension test, but the tests were so easy that people who never read the material scored 57%
XpZr TIL That Dexter Holland (Lead singer for the Offspring) is a candidate for a PhD in microbiology