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TIL that on 9/11 United Airlines Flight 175 had a near midair collision with Delta Air Lines Flight 2315 flying from Hartford to Tampa, reportedly missing the plane by only 200 feet (60 m)

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gM0PA TIL Harry R. Truman refused to leave his lodge at the base of Mount St. Helens in Washington state despite evacuation orders due to its seismic activity, saying to reporters "If the mountain goes, I'm going with it." He was killed by the pyroclastic flow from the eruption on May 18th, 1980.
69VEQ TIL That singer-songwriter and actor Kris Kristofferson was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford after graduating summa cum laude from Pomona College
98Jp TIL that wealthy people in the 1800’s built ruins on their estates and hired ornamental hermits to live in them and be eccentric
MB80 TIL that, by law, no US officer is ever allowed to outrank George Washington, and he was posthumously promoted to “six star general” to make sure.
1aNQX TIL that Pluto is so cold that it's covered in frozen Nitrogen ice. About 800,000 years ago, it may have been warm enough to have liquid Nitrogen flowing across its surface in lakes and rivers.