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

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D1jrD TIL that moose can not only swim as fast as 6mph (3 times faster than the average human) but also dive up to 5m (according to some sources) and hold their breathe for about a minute.
R5MWj TIL to decide what measurement system America should use, John Quincy Adams took 3 1/2 years to produce a 268 page Report on Weights and Measures that ultimately concluded changing to the French metric system would be too difficult for the young nation. Congress took no action on the report.
dDWGQ TIL in "Friday the 13th" (1980), the Camp Crystal Lake scenes were shot at a real camp in New Jersey, Camp No-Be-Bo-Sco. It’s still in operation today as a Boy Scout camp.
VM5AZ TIL a company once redirected all attempts to a non-registered domains to their own page, supposedly for profit. This also messed up with emails sent to non-existing domains for a while.
VPn8 TIL of Setsuo Ishino a Kamikaze pilot who slammed his aircraft into the U.S.S Missouri during W.W.2. During the clean up the ships crew recovered his body, sewed a Japanese Flag to be used as a casket and gave the 19 year old pilot a burial at sea with full military honors.