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TIL Children of South Naknek, Alaska are flown daily to attend school in Naknek, riding the United States of America’s only flying school bus.

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aw4Po TIL The term “walk-off” for a game-winning home run was coined by pitcher Dennis Eckersley and does not refer to the batter walking off the field in triumph, but rather the pitcher walking off the field in shame.
GYlwg TIL that almost every snow crystal has a tiny mote of dust at its center which can be anything from volcanic ash to a particle from outer space.
XEbLj TIL that although the Inca Empire was the largest and wealthiest empire in South America for a time, Inca society had neither a currency nor a concept of money. The economy was so well-planned that everyone had access to what they needed.
0wKnM TIL There is an abandoned Apache 160 airplane in a skatepark in Detroit. According to its registration number, it was registered in 2019, but has been sitting abandoned since at least May 2020 when it was found by a documentary maker.
6lGw TIL 11% of americans could not identify the united states on a map in a 2002 survey.