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TIL - A San Diego flight school flunked two of the 9/11 hijackers for being terrible students.

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WvOY TIL There are still people living in iron lungs
78lgP TIL in 1981, Mauritania was the last country in the world to abolish slavery. The ban wasn't enforced till 2007. In 2017 600,000 were still living in slavery, and only 1 person was prosecuted for owning slaves.
E1v7X TIL that Stonehenge was restored in the 1950s and 60s, including re-erecting stones, setting some in concrete and lifting and straightening others
kjMe TIL of Adactylidium, a species of mite in which seven female offspring and one male offspring are raised in their mother’s insides. The females then mate with the male and eat their mother alive from the inside-out. Then, they escape their mother’s corpse, leaving their brother to die.
nWEpB TIL of the competitive sport of Hobby Horsing. Competitors compete in events such as Show Jumping, Dressage, Freestyle and Time trials.