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TIL that on April 28th, 1988 the roof of an Aloha Airlines jet ripped off at 24,000 feet mid-air. Clarabella Lansing , a flight attendant, was the only fatality. She was swept out of the airplane near the 5th row seats. Her body was never found .

j6Zjp TIL: In 1941 The Germans allowed the British RAF to drop a prosthetic leg by parachute to a Luftwaffe base in France. The Germans were very respectful of Captain Douglas Bader, who was captured after bailing from his plane with only one of his two prosthetic legs. One got stuck in his damaged plane.
x6Xwk TiL that Brian Wilson was only 23 years old when he produced, arranged, and co-wrote the Beach Boys album "Pet Sounds". The album has since been credited for revolutionizing music production and has appeared in many "greatest records of all time" lists.
lgZa TIL Only five independent writing systems have been produced in the entire human history. Sumerian, Egyptian, Harappan, Mayan, and Chinese.
5VY5p TIL that while impressed by his book "Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica", the UK's science academy couldn't publish Isaac Newton's book due to being nearly bankrupt from spending all of its money printing the "History of Fish". Thankfully, scientist Edmond Halley's funded the printing.
JYO7k TIL that while prohibition agent Izzy Einstein made nearly 5,000 arrests in a variety of disguises, on 20 occasions he showed his ID to the bouncer who let him in thinking it was fake.