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TIL of Frederick Fleet who survived the sinking of the Titanic, WW1 and WW2, to die by suicide in 1965 at the age of 77.

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ob6E TIL in August 1981, 11,000 out of the nation’s 16,000 air traffic controllers were fired by President Reagan after going on strike. Their union, PATCO, was dissolved and three of its leaders were sent to prison.
epNP5 TIL after the Khwarazmian Empire was destroyed by the Mongols, the Khwarazmian army survived and marched around the Middle East for a few decades as a mercenary force.
RXDw TIL in 1999 a mentally ill man was arrested for plotting to kill sheriff Joe Arpaio with a pipe bomb. Saville was acquitted four years later when it was discovered that Arpaio’s detectives had purchased the bomb parts themselves and framed Saville in a publicity stunt to boost approval ratings.
pWJG TIL Hitler’s plan for a rebuilt Berlin included the “People’s Dome”, a hall so big that if it were occupied at capacity, “the condensed breath of the [180,000] people would have accumulated in the dome and caused a rainfall”
VP5D TIL that a woman was fined $1.9 million for illegally downloading 24 songs, $80,000 per song.