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TIL flights from Los Angeles to Seoul Korea fly over Alaska. I had to grab a globe just to verify that it is the shortest distance.

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69m7Q TIL the Hoover Dam was completed 2 years ahead of schedule
pM0Q TIL not only was 2015 the warmest year world-wide on record, it beat the previous record holder by the widest margin ever observed. The previous record holder was 2014.
6ELEY TIL that in 1720 a ship full of precious goods and sick people arrived in Marseille/France. In spite of clear signs, greedy merchands put pressure an the authorities to shorten the quarantine and not to burn the freight. More than 100.000 people died because of pestilence in the next two years.
VMP40 TIL Walt Disney planned to produce "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" animated movie similar to his earlier film "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", but his plan was crushed after MGM studios won the film rights to the popular book first.
EgKrx TIL a 2023 study compared the health outcomes of over 4,000 patients with hypochondriasis to the health outcomes of about 40,000 control patients matched for age & other demographics; a key finding was that people with hypochondriasis were over four times more likely to die from suicide.