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TIL that use of the word "Piracy" to describe copyright infringement is actually centuries old.

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LQpev TIL that the red shapes in the Frisian Flag are actually water-lily leaves
Y78Dr TIL Edmund Hillary (first person to summit Mt Everest) was scheduled to serve as a guide for a flight over Antarctica on Air New Zealand Flight 901, but canceled to instead embark on a US speaking tour. Flight 901 ended up crashing into Mt Erebus, killing all onboard.
dQEQ TIL that in 2008 PayPal cofounder Peter Thiel invested in an institute who’s goal was to create man made islands in unregulated international waters
ey0b TIL an Air Canada flight in 1983 ran out of fuel mid-flight, but the crew managed to glide the 767 to nearby airport. The plane turned out to have only been filled with half the amount of fuel it needed due to a miscalculation because Canada was in the process of converting to the metric system.
KYo4Q TIL the world record for the longest time spent under totality (full solar eclipse) is 74 minutes. A group of scientists rode the supersonic Concorde that flew Mach 2 chasing the 1973 Solar Eclipse over Northern Africa.