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TIL that Space Shuttle Endeavour was built mostly of spare parts from Shuttles Discovery and Atlantis

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YpXKA TIL that the woman who accused 14 y.o. Emmett Till of flirting with her admitted that she lied 62 years later. Till was brutally lynched by the woman’s husband and his cousin based on her accusation. Images of his mutilated body are credited with sparking the Civil Rights movement.
XBZE TIL that in 1982 a British Airways 747 had all 4 of its engines flame out after flying through a cloud of volcanic ash over Indonesia. The crew managed to maneuver the powerless plane through the cloud, restart all 4 engines in mid-air, and then safely make an emergency landing in Jakarta.
e0jJ TIL that when Gerber began to sell their baby food in Africa, they had to remove the image of a baby from the labels, since many horrified, illiterate Africans used these images to find what the bottles contained.
1aDgW TIL that there are trees that have bark that peels away to reveal a second layer of colorful bark, making a rainbow like effect
e4l4 TIL that the primitive bobsled was built because some tourists got bored at a winter resort. The first luge track was built by the owner of that resort to keep them from bumping into pedestrians in 1870.