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yKDa TIL that a Russian couple were reunited after being separated for 60 years. They were married for 3 days when the husband left to join the Red Army. They were unable to find each other until 60 years later when they randomly visited their hometown on the same day.
grk1y TIL that the first officer on Qantas Flight 32, an Airbus A380 named “Nancy-Bird Walton” that suffered an engine failure, applied to Qantas with a reference written by Nancy-Bird Walton
VXjG TIL the website hampsterdance.com was created in 1998 as a result of a competition between two Canadian sisters to see who could generate the most traffic and is one of the earliest examples of an internet meme.
OoE7e TIL that roots of a rubber tree species in India known as The Ficus Elastica are so strong that sometimes they join each other and create hanging bridges for locals to pass
glwX TIL that between 2003 and 2008, the US government spent over $15,000,000,000 on AIDS prevention in Africa, saving an estimated 1.1 million lives and reducing AIDS infection rates by 10%