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TIL The Great Wall of China was reinforced with rice

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yQVkX TIL the first British pilot to be shot down in WWII was in a friendly fire incident three days into the war
5BZ9 TIL that in 1913, Nebraska outlawed oral sex - in an ironic twist the act that was passed to criminalize oral sex was the 69th act to be passed that year. The act has since been known as “act 69”.
GY4GQ TIL of the "Gimli Glider", Air Canada Flight 143, a Canadian scheduled domestic passenger flight between Montreal and Edmonton that ran out of fuel on July 23, 1983, at an altitude of 41,000 feet, midway through the flight. Successfully landed with 0 casualties.
nyj7 TIL The Dark Side of the Moon was #1 for only one week on the Billboard album chart, although it remained on the chart for 741 weeks
J1p5V TIL that the Yahgan people in South America are the world's southernmost human population. They were decimated by diseases introduced by Europeans and the last full-blooded Yahgan died in 2022 due to COVID-19. Today, the total population of the Yahgan is less than 1,600.