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TIL the Airbus 340 is the only airline passenger jet with no accidents

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a87mN TIL Mount Tambora had a series of violent eruptions in April of 1815, resulting in the largest eruption in recorded human history & an estimated 71,000 deaths. This led to 1816 being known as the year without a summer, resulting in the worst famine of the century when crops failed & livestock died.
v76D TIL that over half of the names of companies on the Fortune 500 list have disappeared since the year 2000.
pm0p TIL That the pit of death in ‘300’ actually exists.
0wNxv TIL that Adam Rainer was born a dwarf (measuring 4'8" at the age of nineteen) and died a giant (measuring 7'8'' at the age of fifty-one). He is the only person in history to have been classified as both.
rgRx TIL that with the help of Dwight Eisenhower, Coca-Cola produced a secret “White Coke” variant of the popular drink. It was made specifically for a powerful Soviet Military Marshall who loved Coca-Cola but needed to hide the fact he was drinking it as it was seen as an American imperialist product.