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TIL that the plane John McClane blows up in Die Hard 2, N473EV, was later nearly destroyed in reality by extreme turbulence which caused one engine to be completely torn from the plane mid-flight.

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Z8kPa TIL that Courland (located in present day Latvia) briefly colonized the island of Tobago in the Caribbeans, making it the only Baltic colony in the Americas.
MeGYB TIL Pop artist Mike Posner, a track and cross country athlete growing up, recently performed a 3000+ mile walk across America spanning over 181 days.
JYvBV TIL a century after the bloody and violent Hatfield–McCoy feud in West Virginia/Kentucky, the two families faced off again on the game show "Family Fued" in 1979. The teams received a mannequin for every match they won as the producers thought it would be funny to “litter the stage with bodies”.
6Ov7 TIL Sally Field only played Aunt May in “Amazing Spider-Man” as a favor to the producer, and described it as “ten pounds of shit in a five pound bag”
gr1KX TIL in 1959, John Howard Griffin passed himself as a Black man and travelled around the Deep South to witness segregation and Jim Crow, afterward writing about his experience in "Black Like Me"