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TIL Airline pilots deliberately touch down hard on the runway when it’s raining, to minimize aquaplaning.

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VMG4 TIL Playboy founder Hugh Hefner is the cousin of former U.S. president George W. Bush.
b96Zj TIL that Saddam Hussein was shown the film "South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut" while on trial for crimes against humanity as a form of torture.
6EvO8 TIL about Rumpology, a pseudoscientific method of learning about a person’s character and revealing their past and future by examining their buttocks. It is also sometimes referred to as asstrology
aw7JZ TIL The gypsies lost more in percentage terms than the Jews during the holocaust. They don't call it the holocaust, they call it the devouring.
5oNB TIL there was a custom in ancient Babylon compelling all women at least once in their lives to go to the temple of Aphrodite and have sex with a stranger.