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TIL That after successfully ditching his Airbus A320 in the Hudson River in 2009, Captain "Sully" Sullenberger was granted lifetime membership in the Seaplane Pilots Association.

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dPRj TIL: Pedro López, a South American serial killer confirmed to have killed 110 people and confessed to have killed more than 300 between 1969 and 1980, was released in 1998 on good behaviour. His whereabouts are currently unknown.
P8OZ TIL: The ocean garbage patches are in a region with almost no life, “an ocean desert” and we would be better off preventing more plastic from entering the ocean than trying to clean them.
VBO0G TIL that Sofia—the first robot to get citizenship in any country—was given this status in Saudi Arabia on 2017. This was done in order for Saudi Arabia to position itself as a leader in AI Technology.
QJgvL TIL that BumbleBee Tuna had an awful fatality in 2012 where an employee was pressure-cooked... Alive...
x6yNk TIL that women exposed to music rate men as more attractive than women who aren't