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TIL A Roman soldier mooned at crowds in Jerusalem, causing a stampede which left 10k people dead

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pY6rp TIL a pilot named Tim Lancaster was sucked out of a plane in midair. His knees where caught on the flight controls, preventing him from falling to his death. He survived the whole incident.
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epyWJ TIL that Sesame Street was fiercely rejected by the BBC in 1971 because it had “authoritarian aims”. Monica Sims, the network head of childrens programming at the time stated “This sounds like indoctrination, and a dangerous extension of the use of television.”
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