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TIL about that time a British Airways flight got grounded because of a smelly poop

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vP1XL TIL that self-taught inventor/engineer E. Lilian Todd was the first woman to design and build an airplane, only 3 years after the Wright brothers’ first flight. However, she did not pilot the aircraft herself because she was denied a permit.
xgob TIL it took over a full day for people to realize what had happened at Chernobyl and to begin an evacuation.
nyD9 TIL that Disney almost made a Toy Story 3 without Pixar’s involvement. The story involved Buzz Lightyear toys being recalled for manufacturing defects and being shipped off to Taiwan. The film was almost in production stages before being scrapped by Pixar.
AELg TIL Steven Spielberg initially considered filming Schindler’s List entirely in German and Polish, but decided he “wanted people to watch the images, not read subtitles. There’s too much safety in reading. It would have been an excuse to take their eyes off the screen and watch something else.”
AD0a4 TIL that Dr. Thomas Midgely, inventor of both leaded-gasoline and chlorofluorocarbon with the best of intentions, devised an ingenious system of pulleys and strings to pull his polio-stricken body out of bed, which tangled around his neck, and killed him.