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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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rNar4 TIL: Tonsil Stones Can Form When Food, Bacteria, and Other Debris Get Stuck in Your Tonsils. (And They Look Like Teeth!)
4XrVX TIL Most of our 60 trillion dollar stock and bond markets are non-physical AND unsecured.
8akk4 TIL of Soviet spy, Gevork Vartanian, who stopped the Nazi assassination of Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill at the age of 19; 400 German agents were arrested/killed because of his efforts, and the assassination was ultimately prevented.
9w05Q TIL that in October 1972, Nick Begich, a member of the US Congress representing Alaska, died in a plane crash. Despite this, he still stood in the November 1972 general election and won, defeating 2nd place Don Young by over 7 percentage points.
9PN7 TIL that Bhutan has a minister of happiness, whose goal is to be conscious and respect the pursuit of happiness nation wide. The UN was inspired and passed resolution 65/309, effectively putting ‘happiness’ on the global agenda.