A baby with a double cleft lip and palate shown before and after reconstructive surgery, a common but serious birth defect where the tissue of the upper lip and roof of the mouth doesn't fully join du
TIL Pan Am didn't have domestic routes within the US, it mostly operated international routes. The Civil Aeronautics Board banned the airline from establishing domestic routes. After deregulation in 1
TIL that the origin stories of characters such as Iron Man or the Punisher, which were previously tied to the Vietnam War, have now been retconned to take place during the Siancong War, a fictional co
TIL in 1849, Henry Wirz, a convicted Swiss fraudster, fled to the US, where he became a quack doctor and slave plantation overseer. He joined the Confederate Army in the Civil War, and ran the cruel A
Georg Steinhauser, an Austrian chemist, spent three years collecting his own belly button lint for a real published study in 2009. He gathered 503 samples and found that abdominal hair has a barbed, s
TIL that scientists reintroduced the Whooping Crane to an extinct migration route by guiding them through the air with an ultralight airplane they imprinted on. The pilot had to wear a crane costume t
TIL that for Terminator 2, stunt pilot Chuck Tamburro flew a real helicopter under an overpass at 60 knots with about 5 ft of clearance above and 4 ft on each side; when camera operators refused to fi
TIL that Lennox Lewis, Gene Tunney, Rocky Marciano and Vitali Klitschko are the four heavyweight boxing champions to have retired as champion. Of these four Lewis and Marciano are the two to hold a wi
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