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TIL there is a 50,000 word novel without the letter ‘E’

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5j5n TIL that the captain of a United flight had a heart attack mid-flight, and so an off-duty air force captain, Mike Gongol, had to help land the plane, saving 160 lives. He knew he had to help when he heard the PA announcement “are there any non-revenue pilots on board, please ring your call button.”
YpK5d TIL there is a LOT of evidence for life after death. The University of Virginia Medical School has a Division of Perceptual Studies that researches this issue (among others). Researchers there gave a talk in 2017 entitled “Is There Life after Death? Fifty Years of Research at UVA”
KYARR TIL Twentieth Century-Fox used its profits from its film Star Wars to buy the Pebble Beach Golf Course in May 1979.
oBLOW TIL sandplay therapy, the playing with sand & objects in a tray, can facilitate a healing process as the unconscious expresses itself in the sand & influences the sand player. The effectiveness of play therapy is comparable to that of psychotherapy
DQw5D TIL: about birch pollen and accompanying allergies. This explains why skin on apples, almonds, and soy milk sieze up my throat.