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TIL about the Gilmi Glider incident, in which passenger plane Air Canada flight 143 ran out of fuel mid-flight due to a series of failures - including two broken fuel indication systems, a confusion between pounds and kilos, and a technician accidentally undoing a repair to the fuel systems.

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R7g6a TIL that there was extensive research into a cigarette that wasn’t as cancerous, but the project was scrapped just before mass production because of threats by another Tobacco company
lmwN TIL in 2010 rapper G. Dep turned himself into police and confessed to a 17 year old cold case murder, even though he was never suspected. He was “just trying to get things right between himself and God.” He was convicted on a second-degree murder charge and sentenced to 15-years to life in prison.
oAn8 TIL That the United States is considered the origin of at least 60 different kinds of sandwiches.
X0GMD TIL Hitler had chronic flatulence. And he took medicine made from faeces of healthy German soldiers
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