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TIL: January is named after Janus, the Roman God of two faces, one that looks back to the past and the other that looks forward to the future

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b6j6N TIL about a 747 hijacking where the jet had to land in Algeria to refuel. The lead flight attendant actually had to buy 6,000 gallons of jet fuel on her personal credit card because the Algerians insisted on payment first
awVRN TIL an attempted assassin armed with two pistols had them both misfire and the very not assassinated President Andrew Jackson beat him with a cane
9wpDD TIL actor Marlon Brando was an avid conga player, and he patented a self-tuning drum head shortly before he passed away.
yw1M TIL: That Anne Frank only assumed that her father was killed in the concentration camps and that a childhood friend of hers stated that if she knew he was still alive she believed Anne would have summoned the courage to survive
nQko TIL that, according to an NYC medical examiner, “Your golden retriever might sit next to your dead body for days, starving, but the tabby won’t. Your cat will eat you right away, with no qualms at all.”