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TIL Zach Galifianakis smoked weed on national television

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VeZD TIL The 2016 plane crash which killed most of the Brazilian Chapecoense football team was caused by the pilot failing to make necessary fuel stops. The plane ran out of gas while in a holding pattern at its destination airport and fell out of the sky.
0jRR Today I learned that the inequity seen in more attractive waiters earning higher tips is not the result of male customers bestowing financial favors on attractive waitresses. Rather, the primary driver (of this dynamic) is female customers tipping attractive females more than unattractive females
wDQY TIL Phantom time hypothesis - The events from AD 614 to 911 may never have occurred at all.
80WV TIL that there is a musical piece called ‘As SLow aS Possible’, written to be played literally as slow as possible (while strictly adhering to the score’s temporal proportions). An ongoing performance of the score began in a German church in September 5th 2001 and will end on September 5th, 2640.
78OL7 TIL in 1856, the Xhosa people followed a prophecy from a 15yo girl telling them to destroy all their cattle and crops