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TIL sometimes Spitfires had to taxi to the take-off position with a person sat on the tail. In 1945 a pilot forgot about this and took-off with mechanic Margaret Horton clinging on the tail. The pilot realized that his aircraft wasn't handling correctly and landed with Miss Horton still on the tail

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5VXnD TIL about the "Tanganyika-Laughter Epidemic". A student in 1962 in Tanzania started laughing in a school in Kashasha. The laughter quickly spread to hundreds of people,causing schools to close for months. Researchers believe it was caused by stress, social tensions. No official explanation was given
O7OL TIL that Puritans didn’t leave Britain to avoid persecution, they left because of the laws preventing them from persecuting those they thought were not practicing religion properly.
0wQ4L TIL: 80’s Night Court had the tallest cast in sitcom history. Richard Moll was 6’8, John Laroquette 6’4, Harry Anderson 6’4, Charles Robinson 6’2, and Marsha Warfield 5’11.
yQkpa TIL J.K Rowling was rejected by 12 publishers before Harry Potter and The Philosopher's Stone was accepted by Bloomsbury - and even then only at the insistence of the chairman's eight-year-old daughter.
jNBkX TIL A new school textbook that aims to teach boys how to be "masculine" men has been released in China. Called "Little Men," the book covers the differences between boys and girls, the importance of the father-son relationship as well as the importance of interacting with nature and managing money