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TIL that almost fifty percent of men think they could land an airplane with no training if the pilots were incapacitated.

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0wQnR TIL in 2003 some largely unkown online poker player came out of nowhere to win the 2003 World Series of Poker and win 2.5$. His real name was 'Christopher Moneymaker.' His win was said to revolutionize poker, and caused a great boom in popularity, called 'The Moneymaker Effect'
X0wBR TIL :art was an olympics competition
MeypV TIL "After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, 365" USAF B-52 Stratofortress heavy bombers "were destroyed under the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty. The aircraft were stripped of usable parts, chopped into five pieces with a 13,000 pound steel blade and sold for scrap at 12 cents per pound."
b9jWE TIL While filming "Barry Lyndon" in Ireland Director Stanley Kubrick received word his name was on an I.R.A. hit list for directing a movie featuring English soldiers. Star Ryan O Neil said "He was given 24 hours. He was gone in 12."
1aakW TIL prior to their music careers, Sid Vicious and Johnny Rotten would often perform Alice Cooper covers on the streets for money. People would pay them to stop.