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TIL Aviation pioneer Alberto Santos-Dumont committed suicide because of the sight of airplanes flying over his city to bomb a nearby airport

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4Pda TIL the “navel” in a navel orange is actually a second, conjoined twin orange within the same peel
dO47 TIL in June of 1985 a drunk student hijacked a Boeing in Norway demanding to talk to the prime minister. He later surrendered in exchange of more beer.
grnXA TIL that Brooklyn New York has a bigger Jewish population than Jerusalem. 1 out of every 4 people in Brooklyn is Jewish and it has been called "the most Jewish spot on Earth".
R5DWa TIL Lettvin et al. remarked that a frog "will starve to death surrounded by food if it is not moving"; it won't see the [stationary] food due to a general lack of head/eye movements, which lead to visual fading
kJjdg TIL that the Mount Tambora eruption had an explosive yield of 33 gigatons of TNT, 60 times more powerful than all nuclear weapons tests combined.