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TIL Between 2011 and 2020 the second most common cause of death in aviation crashes was suicide by pilot. A majority of these cases were small planes only occupied by the pilot.

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vPRmD TIL Natural gas, is odorized by the provider or supplier in order you to be able to smell it, and that rotten eggs smell we all know isn’t natural.
4XgxN TIL Brains of Transgender people more closely resemble brains of the sex they align with.
OGa97 TIL that when steam locomotives needed to refill their water tanks on long journeys, they would sometimes make use of water troughs built directly on the tracks. The engineers would lower a scoop into the trough as the train drove over it, refilling the tanks without needing to stop.
7Z9Z TIL your whole body aches when you have the flu because your immune system dilates all of your blood vessels and makes your muscles constantly contract
6JX7 TIL of the Horseshoe Theory. The idea is that the political spectrum isn’t a line, it’s more of a horseshoe shape. The extreme ends of the left and right are more similar to each other than moderate left and moderate right.