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TIL the USA hasn't had a single fatal commercial airline crash since 2009!

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DPOp TIL that Dwight D. “Ike” Eisenhower, after serving two terms as President of the United States, sought and received his reinstatement as a General of the Army. Ike believed that history would hardly remember his service as President, but would never forget that he commanded the D-day invasion.
oRKyW TIL electric cars can drive through deep water unscathed
E1KQw TIL that in 1910 spectroscopic analysis of volatile gases in the tail of Halley's Comet caused panicked buying of gas masks and quack "anti-comet pills" and "anti-comet umbrellas" by the public.
5oG9 [TIL] In his multiple record breaking Stratos space dive, Felix Baumgartner opened his parachute early to allow his mentor Col. Joseph Kittinger the dignity of retaining his own record for longest free fall
0rlj TIL in 2012, a skydiver was almost hit by a meteor in mid-air and caught the incident on film (x-post worldnews)