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TIL in 1997 an Air Force pilot mysteriously crashed his A-10 Warthog in Colorado. The four 500 lb bombs his plane was carrying have never been found.

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QDb9 TIL that a bartender from Oregon won $17.500 in the lottery after a customer tipped him with a lottery ticket. He tried to give it back but the customer let him have the money.
Bgg0D TIL Arthur Wharton, born Ghana, 1865, became the 100 yard world record holder for 30 years, the world's first professional black soccer player, a cycling champion, a professional cricketer and then a professional rugby player. He died penniless in 1930 and was buried in an unmarked paupers grave.
neKLB TIL during the Golden Gate Bridge sagged by 7 feet under the weight of 300,000 people on it celebrating its 50th anniversary . The towers were even pulled inward from so much weight.
m1dMo TIL that Roman consular Manius Aquillus was executed by Mithridates of Pontus in 88 BC by having molten gold poured down his throat.
yQrM TIL that only 9 US Presidents to date were not millionaires