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E1l1x TIL in 2002 a midwestern college student attempted to create a "smile" across America with pipe bombs in mailboxes. He was committed to an FBI psych hospital where he remains to this day.
gMeE4 TIL: Helium is the only element that was not first discovered on Earth. Instead, it was discovered in 1868 in the form of previously unknown spectral lines in the light of the sun.
neBg7 TIL there is a 4hr long version of Airport 77 that aired on TBS in 1978. The TBS version remains unreleased in theaters and home media to this day.
v1MVr TIL Reinhold Messner the first climber to ascend all fourteen peaks over 8,000 metres above sea level. And the first ascent of Everest without supplemental oxygen.
OodJ4 TIL in 2019 thieves broke into the Green Vault, the largest collection of treasures in Europe, escaping with an estimated $1 billion in items. There are no known suspects and no one has been arrested to date.