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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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aZo TIL that the word “oxymoron” is an oxymoron itself. In Greek, it translates to “sharp dull”.
65Pl TIL that the wind on neptune is so fast that it breaks the sound barrier
PYAQw TIL about The Man in the Moone, a 1638 novel that is considered by some to be one of the first works of science fiction. In it, a Spaniard ends up on the moon after fleeing Spain and harnessing some wild swans who fly him up to it. He then meets the “Lunars”-a people who inhabit the moon.
Oj4 TIL that the translators of the King James Bible stole 83% of it from someone who was later strangled and burned at the stake…by King James.
ndLP TIL that following a lawsuit, Vanilla Ice purchased the rights to Under Pressure to avoid having to pay further royalties