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TIL Mark Twain called The Book of Mormon “Chloroform in Print”

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DDEg TIL Nelson Mandela was long time friends with Moammar Gaddafi and Fidel Castro.
rR51x TIL In December 1969, a Korean Air Lines plane was hijacked by a North Korean agent soon after taking off from Gangneung.The pilot was forced to fly to and land in North Korea. The crew, aircraft, and seven of the passengers have yet to be returned.
r99x TIL that in 1963, the manager of Hall of Fame pitcher, Gaylord Perry, said jokingly, “They’ll put a man on the moon before he hits a home run.” Sure enough, on July 20, 1969, Perry hit his first career home run, just an hour after Apollo 11 landed on the moon.
Obx6 TIL the the first vending machine, invented in the first century, dispensed holy water.
OGYb4 TIL when a coal waste pile collapsed onto the Welsh village of Aberfan in 1966, school lunch lady Nansi Williams saw the disaster coming and flung herself onto five schoolchildren to shield them from the avalanche. All five children survived, but Nansi did not.