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TIL many Airliners use Microsoft Windows for the Chart & Handbook displays in the Cockpit

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p8m5O TIL that a comet's tail points away from the sun, and don't indicate the direction it's moving
M9QB TIL 15 percent of women have experienced an orgasm during exercise.
D9OP TIL that The Smokey Bear Effect is a bad thing, decades of preventing small fires leads to the accumulation of undergrowth, that fuels massive superfires today
aw9ry TIL that the US once fed information to the USSR about an extremely deadly nerve gas called "GJ" that was nearly impossible to create. Although initially intended to waste Soviet resources on a wild goose chase, the project to replicate "GJ" ended up producing the now-infamous Novichok agents.
AoBl TIL a Soviet scientist, that pioneered artificial insemination, attempted to create human-chimpanzee hybrids by injected human sperm into female chimps. After failing, he had plans to inject ape sperm into human females, but was arrested and stopped in 1930.