r/todayilearned

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TIL that Sully Sullenberger lost a library book when he ditched US Airways Flight 1549 onto the Hudson River. He later called the library to notify them. The book was about professional ethics.

u/nuttybudd

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TIL that Sully Sullenberger lost a library book when he ditched US Airways Flight 1549 onto the Hudson River. He later called the library to notify them. The book was about professional ethics.

https://www.powells.com/book/highest-duty-my-search-for-what-really-matters-9780061924682

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TIL when the artists arrived to record "We Are the World," Stevie Wonder told them that if the song wasn't finished in one take, he and Ray Charles would drive them home.

u/RequirementSouth4482

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TIL when the artists arrived to record "We Are the World," Stevie Wonder told them that if the song wasn't finished in one take, he and Ray Charles would drive them home.

http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Are_the_World

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TIL that in 2004, two male chinstrap penguins, Roy and Silo, after performing mating rituals, formed a pair at New York's Central Park Zoo. One of them tried to hatch a rock, for which a keeper eventually substituted a fertile egg. Roy and Silo then hatched and raised the chick, named Tango.

u/jenesuispashariselon

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TIL that in 2004, two male chinstrap penguins, Roy and Silo, after performing mating rituals, formed a pair at New York's Central Park Zoo. One of them tried to hatch a rock, for which a keeper eventually substituted a fertile egg. Roy and Silo then hatched and raised the chick, named Tango.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_and_Silo#History

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