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TIL: In 1990, A British Airways pilot was sucked out of a cockpit window while at cruising altitude.

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WomB TIL - There is an “Edible Park” in Ashville, NC. It has over 40 different fruit and nut trees that the public is allowed to go and pick fresh fruits from.
x900 TIL that Stalin tried to kill Yugoslavian leader Tito 22 times. Tito then wrote a letter in reply saying: “Stop sending people to kill me. If you don’t stop sending killers, I’ll send one to Moscow, and I won’t have to send a second.”
pRQO TIL there is a programming language called ArnoldC based entirely around Arnold Schwarzenegger quotes
7AJx TIL That when Fredric J. Baur, the inventor of the Pringles can, died, he was cremated and buried in a Pringles can, as per his wishes.
l0x1 TIL that India is credited with being one of the first civilizations to inoculate their children in times of pestilence to boost immunity and stop the spread of disease (1,000 years ago). They made a small incision into the child’s arm, then rubbed it with Smallpox scabs and a thin cloth.