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TIL Paul Revere was a master silversmith

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NXOrP TIL about Pakistan International Airlines Flight 8303, whose pilots tried to land despite not being in a safe position for it, and with their landing gear up. The resulting belly landing damaged the engines so much that when they tried to take off again, it crashed into the city killing 98 people.
XvZX TIL when the Vanessa Williams Miss America scandal was breaking, Hugh Hefner was offered the nude photos. He turned them down saying “There was never any question of our interest. But they clearly weren’t authorized and because they would cause considerable embarrassment, we decided not to publish.”
mx7nY TIL that in the past few years, at the same time that the NFL's "Super Bowl" is being played, the Aquarium of the Pacific (in the Californian city of Long Beach) holds the "Otter Bowl", with the otters playing with footballs made from frozen clams
pY1ab Til that Nicholas Trist the amassador sent to negotiate the end to the Mexican American war was fired from his post by president Polk. Trist responded by ignoring Polk’s order to return to the US and continued to negotiate the end of the war with Mexico.
rJdw TIL that on the 1 year anniversary of it’s completion, the Mars Rover “Curiosity” sang itself Happy Birthday. All alone. On Mars.