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TIL that JetBlue and Southwest are the only major US airlines with no fatalities

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5VnRD TIL that when sperm whales started getting killed for lamp oil, they were able to develop and spread effective defence tactics across the ocean in just a few years
Rbe1 TIL a Hungarian psychologist wrote a book on how to raise a genius. He proposed his ideas to a teacher. They married and raised three chess grandmasters, two of them became record-breakers and one even became the first female to beat the top ranked male (Gary Kasporov).
e07KL TIL Reagan's deterioration from Alzheimer's got so bad he once took a mini ceramic White House model out of his fish tank and when asked what he thought it was he answered, "I don't know, but it's something to do with me."
yQ05w TIL Michael Jackson probably wrote the music for Sonic 3 on Sega (although uncredited)
ANgZn TIL that Natalie Portman filmed scenes with full frontal nudity for 2004’s Closer, but the director, Mike Nichols, chose not to use the footage and deleted it from the final cut of the movie.