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TIL of "MileHighClub" tours, which chartered flights with voyeur cams from Florida for people who wanted to have “sex in the sky”. The company suspended operations after an elderly couple booked the “Quickie” flight & were killed trying to hijack the plane to Cuba, crashing it into the sea

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Zbd4 TIL that Alexander Von Humboldt has more things named after him than any other person who has ever lived.
awpwJ TIL: “Shoeless” Joe Jackson was illiterate. In restaurants, rather than ask someone to read the menu to him, he would wait until his teammates ordered and then order one of the items that he heard.
BwlD TIL: A group of Swedish scientists have included Bob Dylan lyrics in every scientific paper they wrote for the last 17 years
R74A4 TIL about Thad Roberts, a NASA intern who stole millions of dollars worth of moon rocks with his girlfriend, had sex with her on top of the moon rocks, tried to sell the rocks, and ended up in prison.
6E5Nw TIL King James VI, who famously sponsored the modern translation of the Bible, was open about having several homosexual love affairs and was thus sometimes known as 'Queen James' by subjects