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VrGp TIL A Chinese woman drank an entire bottle of cognac when not allowed to bring on airplane; after finishing the bottle, she got barred from boarding due to wild drunken behavior
ne9x9 TIL of Lydia Litvyak, The Jewish Soviet Fighter Ace. During WWII she claimed 14 kills, trained 45 pilots, and shot down an ace who wouldn't believe a woman beat him until she described the fight. She went missing on a flight Just before she was to receive the award "Hero of the Soviet Union"
PY9WJ TIL that only 3 of the 15 highest grossing movies from the 1980s haven't been given a sequel, prequel or turned into a franchise. Those movies are E.T, Tootsie, and Rain Man.
R7W66 TIL: 'Budgie' & 'Parakeet' can refer to the same small Australian parrot, the Budgerigar. In nature it is mostly green, in captivity blues, whites & greys are also bred
l7VGN TIL about the 1944 film To Have and Have Not. It was based on a Ernest Hemingway novel, and William Faulkner was the main contributor to the screenplay. It's the only film in history in which two winners of Nobel prize in literature worked.