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TIL the Vatican once offered time off Purgatory to people following the Pope on Twitter

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7rnXp TIL of Federal Express Flight 705. In April 1994, a disgruntled, suicidal employee tried to hijack and down the plane, brutally attacking the crew with a hammer. The wounded captain put the DC-10 in a dive and rolled it to incapacitate the attacker before landing successfully.
j67Jv TIL that at 2003 New York Comic Con, a fan asked Akira Toriyama what happened to fan favorite character Launch and why she wasn't in DBZ. He answered "To tell you the truth, I totally forgot about her at one point"
pvlZ TIL Monty Python’s album ‘The Monty Python Matching Tie And Handkerchief’ had double grooves on side B, meaning that depending on where you dropped the needle, a different set of tracks would play. Because there was no track listing, many fans were genuinely confused.
8egGa TIL Citizen Kane did not win Best Picture at the Academy Awards.
wo7V6 TIL that the top of Heart Mountain, in NW Wyoming, is ~300 million years older than its base.