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TIL of Aeroflot Flight 593 - a plane that crashed, causing the deaths of all on board, because the pilot let his kids fly it.

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ANAZ4 TIL the word for father is "mama" in most of the western Australian Aboriginal languages. The word for mother is also "papa" in a subset of these languages.
yQ5wV TIL of Jesse Sharp, who died going over Niagra Falls in a kayak, confident enough that he had dinner reservations booked that evening. He refused to wear both a helmet and a life jacket.
gMybX TIL: Port Royal, Jamaica, a pirate safe haven in the Caribbean slid into the ocean largely intact during a massive earthquake. Nautical archeologists can now explore entire sections of old buildings underwater.
GADKj TIL in 1951, Dr. W Grey Walter built a "tortoise" robot that can detect and move around obstacles and "see" by going towards or away from bright light, and return to its charging station when the battery charge is low.
69oM7 TIL , the rate of divorce for marriages involving an American husband and a Japanese wife stand at 32%, which is lower than the rate of divorce between Japanese citizens