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TIL that the People’s Temple Basketball team were among the only Survivors of the Jonestown Mass suicide because they were playing at a basketball tournament in Georgetown.

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8kEb TIL In 1945, a B-25 bomber pilot crashed into the Empire State Building’s elevator shaft, snapping the cable. By the time the carriage reached the bottom, a thousand feet of cable had piled up beneath it acting like a spring, which allowed the lone occupant in the car to escape injured but alive.
Ob6g TIL that Dale Dye, a Vietnam vet, was so “pissed off” at Hollywood’s depiction of war that he offered his services as an advisor and now runs “the entertainment industry’s top military consultancy company”. He’s worked on Platoon, The Pacific and, for some reason, Entourage.
eORb TIL the name of the Crown Prince of Morocco is Hassan ibn Mohammed Al-Alaoui - Hassan bin Mohammed bin Hassan bin Mohammed bin Yousef bin Hassan bin Mohammed bin Abderrahmane bin Hisham bin Mohammed bin Abdullah bin Ismail bin Moulay Ali Charif
GYy6E TIL of Gregor MacGregor, a 19th century conman who sold land in a fictional South American country and then sold tickets on a ship to the fictional country. 200 people arrived in the jungle of Nicaragua and most of them died soon after
nWy5W TIL, Tyler Myers and Quentin Grimes are the first set of siblings to play in the NHL and NBA. Tyler, the taller of the two at 6'8", is a defenseman for the Vancouver Canucks and Quentin, who is 6'5", plays shooting guard for the Detroit Pistons.