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TIL The 737 airliner used to have a switch to easily disable a runaway autopilot. The 737 MAX replaced this switch with one that was useless because it wired the pilot's control into the same switch.

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R54Z9 TIL Oddjob is average height in the James Bond movie Goldfinger (even taller in the novel). The only reason he’s a dwarf in Goldeneye 64 is because the developers confused him with Nick Nack from The Man With the Golden Gun.
X0Vm6 TIL that the British biochemist and historian of magic Edwin Dawes was given a gas mask as a boy, and decided to test it out by making Chlorine gas in the family shed.
R7ZB6 TIL about Steve Rothstein, who bought a lifetime unlimited First Class American Airlines ticket for $250,000. That ticket with his flights (listed as being over 10,000) cost the company over $21,000,000. They terminated his ticket in 2008.
arxo TIL a woman sued PepsiCo because she believed the “crunchberries” in Cap'n Crunch cereal were actual fruits. She had eaten the cereal for four years before realizing this.
QJWM6 TIL Director John Landis violated child labour laws & ignored warnings in a Twilight Zone scene with a helicopter & explosives. This resulted in the decapitation of Vic Morrow & a child actor, the death of another child actor, & the loss of the helicopter. He was acquitted of all charges.