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TIL on Take Your Child to Work Day in 2016, a kid visiting the studio accidentally took NPR off the air for a full minute along the west coast.

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GXN1 TIL on August 14th, 2005 the crew of Helios Airways Flight 522 fell unconscious after cabin pressurization failed. The plane flew to its destination on autopilot and assumed a holding pattern there until a flight attendant with a commercial pilot’s license woke up and climbed into the cockpit.
R7jdw TIL coins like pennies actually have no odor. Metals such as iron & copper catalyze a chemical reaction in skin oils which produces the source of the "metal smell", a compound called 1-octen-3-one, and every person's smell is slightly different.
EQJx TIL A group of High School student from Coronado Ca became the West Costs largest drug smuggling operation in the 70’s and 80’s with the help of their High School Spanish teacher.
OlpX TIL that the brain detects if your diet misses some important nutrients, and then makes you eat food that contains them.
B7Bx TIL that maple syrup is essentially anti-freeze for trees.