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TIL in 2012 a 80 yo lady safely landed a plane after her husband, the pilot, had an heart attack and died while flying. She had never flown before.

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5VvG9 TIL about the Kazakh Famine (1930–1933), which killed around 1.5 million people. Between 38–42% of ethnic Kazakhs died, and as a result, Kazakhs did not become the majority in their own country again until the 1990s.
RjY8 TIL that in 1958 the US government funded a experiment to try to get dolphins to talk with humans by having a human and dolphin live together. When the dolphin went through adolescence he tried courting the woman, and she began to give him hand jobs, which made him more receptive to the lessons.
d8xX7 TIL Russia firstly offered Alaska to Liechtenstein before they offered it to the US
Vyl0 TIL that there was a study done by Steven Stack and Jim Gundlach that showed that the more airtime country music got, the higher the suicide for white males.
O8e7 TIL the Turkish general who enacted the 1997 coup, which freed Turkey from its last Islamist government, was arrested for that “crime” in 2012 by Erdogans government.