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TIL Alice's Restaurant Massacree is mostly a true story

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lAPr TIL that between 1977 and 1979, New Zealand offered scenic Antarctic flights. They stopped when one plane crashed into an Antarctic volcano killing all 257 people on the flight. The wreckage still remains at the crash site.
bQP0 TIL Hugo Boss founded his company in 1924, ten years later advertising that he had been a “supplier for National Socialist uniforms since 1924”, eventually used POW’s and forced laborers for mass production.
Br9ne TIL that in 2014 the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting company created and aired a shot-for-shot clone of the American sitcom "Modern Family"
Brk1r TIL Child prodigy Edmund Thomas Clint died at age 6 but still drawn over 25,000 paintings during his life.
QJ849 TIL that the refrain "Mama-say mama-sah ma-ma-coo-sah from "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'" by Michael Jackson was taken from "Soul Makossa", a song by Cameroonian musician Manu Dibango. The song was considered one of the first disco records, and became an underground hit in the early 70s.