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TIL that yawning and stretching at the same time is called pandiculating.

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NXX18 TIL: In 1999, a disgruntled airline pilot stole an airplane and crashed it into the airline's remaining working aircraft, effectively crippling the airline
a894o TIL I learned about the HMS Thesis submarine disaster. It had an escape chamber that saved 4 lives but the fifth person panicked when using it, dooming all 98 others aboard.
BrpRr TIL During WWII the Allied forces would drop clouds of thin strips of aluminum foil from aircraft to overwhelm enemy radar in a countermeasure known as “Window.”
wo6po TIL in 1714, a Native American guide in eastern North America showed a group of settlers a deep path worn in the streambank by herds of eastern elk crossing the river. By 1880, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service declared the eastern elk subspecies extinct.
9Y4NB TIL that Air Transat Flight 236 lost both engines over the Atlantic, and set a glide record for a commercial airliner of 120km as the pilot successfully made an emergency landing at Lajes Air Base in the Azores.