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TIL commercial planes get hit by lightning 1-2 times a year

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YpaNA TIL that in 1552 a man accidentally shot himself in the head with a longbow.
a8O0 TIL A tribe in New Guinea met a White man for the first time in 1976 and it was filmed. They have never seen modern civilization, or any modern technology
4Xy6J TIL of the Saratoga Springs Legend. A claim that crisps were invented in New York, despite being invented in England decades earlier. This legend continued into at least the 1970s when a major advertising campaign attributed the invention of crisps to the US.
5YGB9 TIL that researchers in South Africa encountered seals that forcibly copulated with King Penguins and on one occasion the penguin was killed and devoured as well.
woMA7 TIL that tabloid newspapers take their name from medicines. The first pills were known as "tabloids" of compressed powder for easy administration. Tabloid newspapers got their name because they are condensed stories and are "easier to swallow" than normal newspapers.