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TIL a single strand of human hair can support the weight of 100g

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OG58R TIL that Australia has never had a passenger jet crash. Military jets, firefighting jets, prop driven passenger planes have crashed - but never a single jet, either in Australia or an Australian operator elsewhere.
nW88b TIL: USPS vehicles are not required to have a lincense plate.
b0O0 TIL: There was an African grey parrot that learned over 100 English words, which he could use and combine approprately. His last words to his handler were “You be good. I love you. See you tomorrow”.
xVVgb TIL of Charles "Old Hoss" Radbourn, a baseball pitcher and Hall of Famer who, in 1886, became the first person to be captured on camera giving the middle finger
epDXD TIL the Girl Scouts sell 200 million boxes each year, surpassing sales of Oreos, not to mention sales of all Chips Ahoy and Milano cookies combined