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TIL a passenger on a Southwest flight from Atlanta to Houston fell ill in mid flight. His wife called out for a doctor, and 20 doctors who were returning from a conference stood up and helped the man until the plane landed.

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9Y9yQ TIL penguins can drink saltwater because of glands near their eyes that remove salt from their bloodstream and then they can sneeze out the extra salt.
ORRa TIL of Manaus, a Brazilian city of 2 million people deep in the Amazon Rainforest. It was once a notoriously extravagant rubber boom town in the 1800s. An opera house was built with European marble & crystal. One visiting opera troupe had half of its performers die from yellow fever in one season.
N74DE TIL people are more likely to cheat on their spouse when they are on a diet due to willpower being an exhaustible mental resource.
XEgmE TIL Aetheraed's epithet (The Unready) does not derive from the modern word , but rather from the Old English unræd meaning "poorly advised"; it is a pun on his name, which means "well advised".
aaB9 TIL that Alfred Wegener, the father of Continental Drift (which became plate tectonics) and a pioneer in paleoclimatology died lost in a blizzard on an expedition. His theories were ridiculed until decades later.