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TIL that the only Counter-Terrorism unit to end a hijacking while the plane was still in the air was the austrian EKO Cobra

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grYWW TIL about Ben Montgomery, a former slave who bought the plantation of his former owner, Joseph Davis. Davis was the brother of Jefferson Davis, the only President of the Confederate States of America.
deR9 TIL it is legal in 25 states for police to detain persons and request such persons to identify themselves, and arrest them if they do not.
oRm5o TIL of The Business Plot of 1933, a failed attempt to overthrow FDR and install a dictator. Led by a covertly bankrolled Wall Street coalition of affluent businessmen
R7KaQ TIL Boeing wanted to make air travel 20% faster in 2001 but airlines wanted to save money and bought the Airbus A380 instead.
D11Op “At any given moment, there are 1,800 thunderstorms happening somewhere on Earth. This amounts to 16 million storms each year! We know the cloud conditions that produce lightning, but we cannot forecast the location or time of a lightning strike.”