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TIL that a man named George Wright in 1972 hijacked a plane and disappeared. He was then on the run for 41 years until he was captured in Portugal.

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VvPk TIL that a man quit his job to test a theory that if you deliberately practice something for 10,000 hours you can become an overachiever in any field. He is now a 4 handicap and 3 off becoming a PGA Tour Professional Golfer, having never played prior to this project.
OGKOX TIL that after Top Gear ended, host Richard Hammond was so devastated, he cried all the way home from the studio and ran out of fuel, because he didn't want to fill his car up covered in tears
dDmv7 TIL about RTX, otherwise known as Resiniferatoxin. A compound that is 500x more potent than Capsaicin with a Scoville Heat Unit Score of 16 Billion. Ingesting 1/1,000,000 of a gram can induce severe burning pain and chemical burns.
OovwY TIL Weddellite crystals can be found at the bottom of a sea near Antarctica and in kidney stones in the human body.
94V7 TIL that a man escaped from slavery, by not running away, but by mailing himself through the post office to a free state