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TIL Buildings cover less of Britain than the land revealed when the tide goes out

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wobZo TIL about Aeroflot flight 6502 that crashed and killed 70 people after the pilot made a bet that he could make an instrument-only approach with curtained cockpit windows.
LQ0WV TIL that one of the first recorded black people in Britain was named ‘Reasonable Blackman’ (1579–1592)
obVK TIL that there is a high school in Philadelphia that is allowed to confer degrees as well as high school diplomas. Some graduates are granted a Bachelor of Arts at graduation.
QX09 TIL coconut crabs are suspected of hiding Amelia Earhart’s remains.
jGWQ TIL that John L. Leal was put on trial for adding sodium hypochlorite - chlorine’s predecessor and considered poisonous - into the water supply of a chemophobic Jersey City in 1908, but was vindicated after the move practically eradicated typhoid.