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TIL that the last Shuttle flight STS-134 was delayed after an engineer committed suicide by throwing himself off the launch pad.

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rRaZW TIL that 9/11, which caused all US planes to be grounded for 3 days, was used by Climate scientists to study the affect that contrails have on the environment.
8MKb TIL Many Major League Baseball players have refused to face softball pitcher Jennie Finch in her ‘This Week in Baseball’ TV segment, where she challenges the best hitters in MLB, because she strikes out so many of them.
Mee78 TIL in the 1930s, people were convinced to use their savings to raise and sell frogs. Problem was, no-one wanted to buy frogs.
jNklX TIL the amount of arable land (land that crops can grow on) per person on the planet is .19 hectacres, less then half a football field (excluding endzone).
nNEr TIL on average, less than 1 person a year is killed by a shark, but 100 million sharks are killed every year by humans.