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TIL two aviation incidents happened where superstitious, inexperienced passengers tried to throw coins into the plane's engines for good luck before the flight.

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4XDeN TIL of the sunkin library book burning memorial in Berlin, Germany. The library is built underground, is not accessible to the public, and can only be viewed through a glass plate that shows enough empty bookcases to hold 20,000 books, the amount burned in a book burning event on May 10, 1933.
kOXM5 TIL about superfecundation, which is the phenomenon of conceiving twins from two different fathers.
Ne46 TIL Your brain accounts for only 2 percent of your body weight but consumes roughly 20 percent of your calorie intake. Average newborn’s brain uses close to 75 percent of available energy.
Mjbm TIL that the tallest, pre-modern statue in the world, the Leshan Giant Buddha, was built to calm the turbulent waters of a river, and the amount of stone deposited into the water from carving it, made the river safer for ships.
wLZL8 TIL in 1914 the wife of the French PM assassinated a newspaper editor to prevent him from leaking that she and her husband had been dating while still married to their previous spouses. She was acquitted for 'uncontrollable female emotions'