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TIL that the last of the kidnappers convicted of the 1976 Chowchilla bus kidnapping (in which 3 kidnappers hijacked a school bus with 26 children on board and forced them into a moving truck buried in a quarry before they escaped after 16 hours underground) was paroled in 2022.

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b95PE TIL hippos can't actually swim. They run across the bottom of bodies of water and hop up when they need to get air.
Eg9wd TIL the 4 or 5 digit code printed on the sticker attached to your produce is universal, so your banana will be labeled with 4011 almost everywhere you buy them. The standards are set by an international coalition of companies.
wobj8 TIL producer Brian Grazer had doubts about making 8 Mile with Eminem when Em was reportedly having an issue with Elton John. However, Tom Hanks convinced him to not drop the movie by responding, "Are you crazy? That’s another character...That’s Slim Shady. He doesn’t even take it seriously".
4k8Eg TIL of the "Dawson Film Find". 1900s Dawson was a remote gold rush town with a cinema. Film's sent there were never returned, accumulated, buried, covered by a hockey rink and forgotten. Years later diggers unearthed the 533 reels of lost films, and rare footage, including the 1919 World Series.
XELXj TIL Army vet Gregory Holeman needed a ride to the hospital but didn't know if Veterans Affairs covered an ambulance not pre-authorized. He asked his sister to call a social worker but she misdialed & Jimmy John's answered; JJ delivery driver Zack Hillmer (a U.S. Navy vet) drove him to the hospital.