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TIL that flight crews who are unfamiliar with each other are more prone to making errors.

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xYN0 TIL that in the 1st episode of 30 Rock, after Jack discusses how he developed the Trivection oven, GE ran an ad during commercial break to make sure the audience knew it was a real product, not something writers made up as a joke for the show.
jXVN TIL The three warning sings of future psychopathic behavior are 1) animal torture, 2) prolonged bed-wetting, and 3) juvenile pyromania. Criminologists call these symptoms “The Triad.”
g6K8 TIL that every county in the world is either entirely or partially north of Uruguay.
kOl4e TIL that an underground beer pipeline had been built in 2017 for the Wacken Open Air (WOA) hard rock festival, in northern Germany. The pipeline was 7 km long.
ADPEo TIL the political "Left" and "Right" picked those sides in 1789, when French revolutionaries in the National Assembly decided which side of the room they would sit on. "So as to avoid the shouts, oaths, and indecencies that enjoyed free rein in the opposing camp." -Baron de Gauville