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TIL in 2015, a plane made an emergency landing after the crew received an indication of smoke in the cargo hold. It turns out to be caused by the 2,186 sheep farting onboard.

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5VB19 TIL there is at least one known occasion in Ancient Athens where a whole six thousand jurors sat together to judge a single case
4XgGJ TIL that in Zurich, the garbage disposal is financed by selling official plastic bags for non-recyclable waste. Garbage trucks will not even pick up unofficial bags from houses and they instead have to be placed in designated neighbourhood containers.
R5xl9 TIL Will Purvis, who was convicted of murder in 1894 and had always maintained his innocence, told the jury he would "live longer than the lot of them." He survived a hanging, was re-incarcerated, and eventually pardoned and released.
mxRYR TIL the Honda Ridgeline is the “Most American Truck” with 70% of its parts made domestically in 2019. Many Fords, Chevys, RAMS, and GMCs are assembled in or have major parts made in Mexico
5Yp1P TIL the animal characters in the Jungle Book were named with the Hindi name for what animal they are. And that loosely translated Shere Khan means Tiger King