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TIL there are only 25 active blimps on the entire planet.

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Xo86 TIL carrots don’t actually improve eyesight. This lie was crafted by the British in WWII to explain their soldiers’ super human accuracy at night and to prevent the Nazis from finding out about the real reason for their accuracy: they had developed radar.
OolwY TIL 3 Canadian men working on a boat at Digby's waterfront freed a 15 ft minke whale tangled in a net which surrounded its mouth & embedded about an inch into its skin. The whale came to shore in waist-high water as if searching for help from humans; when free, the whale swam back to deeper waters.
e4En TIL John Gilpin, an amateur photographer, was testing his new camera lens at the airport and caught a 14 year old boy falling from the wheel well of Japan Air Lines DC-8
awp4o TIL: Kentucky and Missouri are the only neighboring states that have no direct road connection
DQQ5v TIL that working in a slaughterhouse is associated with an increased risk to have a mental health disorder and committing sexual offences.