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TIL that albatrosses outfitted with data trackers are being used to expose illegal fishing operations. The birds, which can fly thousands of miles, are drawn by the smell of fish. Their tracker then detects the radar from boats that have otherwise switched off their location reporting.

ne5WW TIL that five years after the Beatles disbanded, John Lennon and Paul McCartney played together one last time with Stevie Wonder in an impromptu jam session.
yVVLp TIL that strongest insect in the world is Horned Dung Beetle that can lift over 1100 times its body weight which equals to an average person lifting 2 fully loaded 18 wheel trucks above their heads.
epEJE TIL the first commercial airplane crash that killed more than 100 people happened in 1956 over the Grand Canyon. A Douglas DC-7 hit a Lockheed Super Constellation and crashed into a ravine slope at over 480 mph, while the Lockheed disintegrated into a cliff. All 128 people on the planes died.
YpPbd TIL During a 1989 Christmas television broadcast, Santa Claus encouraged all children to hold the phone to the TV, tricking them into dialing a 1-900 number that automatically charged several dollars to their parents' phone bill.
d8b8B TIL that according to Greek mythology, the Anemone flower was created by the tears of Aphrodite mixing with the blood of her mortal lover Adonis, who had been fatally wounded by a wild boar. It is said that the flower represents Adonis' existence; beautiful, graceful and short lived.