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TIL in 1987, an Alaska Airlines 737 collided with a fish in midair. Today, the company flies a plane affectionately named the Salmon-Thirty-Salmon

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1agJW TIL Lincoln’s bodyguard, a drunk previously reprimanded for drinking on the job, was not at his post to protect POTUS the night Lincoln died. Instead, he was at the Star Saloon next door drinking; the same saloon where John Wilkes Booth was seeking the liquid courage to assassinate the President.
1WE8 TIL during the Siege of Leningrad in WWII, 9 Soviet scientists died of starvation while protecting the world’s largest seed bank, refusing to eat what they saw as their country’s future.
AaLx TIL that Albert Einstein was asked to be the president of Israel, which he declined.
ADnKw TIL that Ivan the terrible executed his first rival when he was 13 years old
Bwoy TIL that two thirds of an octopuses neurons reside in their tentacles, and that the tentacles can essentially problem solve on their own.