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TIL that in 1983 the Russians shot down Korean Airlines flight 007, killing all 269 people on board, including a U.S. Congressman

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8avJa TIL That Paul McCartney is credited for chewing celery as percussion in a Beach Boys song
PYwmg TIL of Paul Chartier, a Canadian man who attempted to bomb the Canadian House of Commons in 1966. Unfortunately (for him) the clerk who sold him the Dynamite misremembered the burn time of the fuse, resulting in the bomb prematurely exploding in a bathroom and killing him before he could use it.
R54yj TIL in 2019, "Pray for Nesamani" trended in social media after news of contractor Nesamani being admitted to the ICU due to a concussion caused by a hammer that fell on his head. It turns out to be that Nesamani is actually a fictional character played by actor Vadivelu in Tamil film called Friends.
w4lJ TIL: Theo Kojak from the show Kojak sucked on lollipops because the actor who played him (Telly Savalas) was trying to quit smoking throughout the first season’s episodes.
JYagk TIL in 2004, Seth Putnam -- vocalist of the grindcore band Anal C**t, whose offensive song titles included "You're Gay" and "You're in a Coma" -- overdosed and ironically lapsed into a brief coma. He later stated that actually being in a coma "was just as gay [and] fuckin' stupid as I wrote it was."