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TIL in 2003 two men, who weren’t licensed to fly, stole a parked Boeing 727 from Luanda International Airport and neither the men or the plane have ever been found.

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9nkm TIL that in 1752, in England and Wales, people went to bed on the 2nd of September and woke up on the 14th of September. Skipping 11 days entirely because of the implementation of the Gregorian Calendar.
Lvmr TIL astronauts aboard the ISS are growing lettuce to study outer space gardening techniques.
R6P8 TIL that a tribe from Papua New Guinea called the Toulambi had their first contact with civilization in 1993 and, at the time, were still living in the Stone Age.
b9WM9 TIL Gayla Peevey, the little girl who sang, "I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas," is still alive, and was only ten years old when she recorded the song in 1953.
kJ9J5 TIL the NFL did a game in 1980 with no announcers based on a plan by Don Ohlmeyer. They made up for it with more pictures and graphics than ever before. Extra mics were added for sound, catching the varied background noise. They also asked the PA announcer to be more active and embellish his calls