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TIL the first commercial flight of a 747 took place on January 22, 1970. Pan Am’s. Clipper Young America carried 335 passengers and 20 crew members from New York’s JFK Airport to London Heathrow, ushering in the jet age’s second phase: the era of wide body aircraft.

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6EMBZ TIL the Pict people were named by the Romans. They left no writings, so we don't know what they called themselves. The word 'pict' and 'picture' have the same Latin root, meaning, 'painted.' The Romans named them for the blue woad with which they painted themselves.
klZB TIL that there is a mental condition called depersonalization disorder and it is where a person disengages with being in first person and sees/feels themselves in third person.
YagW TIL people born in the Pacific Northwest have the cleanest English dialect
xV1No TIL of Idlewild, Michigan which from 1912 until the end of segregation was known as ‘The Black Eden’ - one of the few places where black Americans could fish, hunt, vacation, party and buy land in peace, without interference.
x6oX1 TIL John Ratzenberger chose to have his Cheers character Cliff Claven wear white socks in honor of French comic actor Jacques Tati