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TIL there are no bridges over the Amazon River

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4kgRR TIL that Native Americans would bend(thong) trees to use as Trail Markers.
0dbej TIL that from 2021-2024, there were only two commercial aircraft incidents involving fatalities in the United States: the 2022 Mutiny Bay DHC-3 Otter crash (10 fatalities) and 2020 Calabasas helicopter crash (9 fatalities).
mQYx TIL all of the actors in “Pirates of the Caribbean” learned how to work with cannons and swords in Pirates School, which included getting trained by the late famed swordsman Bob Anderson, who also was the lightsaber master who fought battles as Darth Vader in Star Wars films
b9A4E TIL at least 165 people survived both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings in Japan during WWII.
e0Y0L TIL in 981 a hospital's location was chosen by hanging pieces of meat in several places for a few days and deciding in favor of the one where meat was found to be least infected