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TIL the final destruction of the wreckage of TWA Flight 800 was completed in 2023, over 20 years after the plane crashed

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8a64b TIL Mad Magazine was threatened with a lawsuit after their parody of The Empire Strikes Back. The matter was dropped after Mad publisher Bill Gaines sent the lawyers a copy of a letter from George Lucas praising the satire
E1X8W Today I learned that Scots and Inuit made contact
awRwL TIL about Styles Hutchins, the first African American man to argue a case in a Georgia court. After his success in court, his client, Ed Johnson, was lynched, and Hutchins' law firm was burned down. Hutchins fled to Illinois, where he ceased practicing law and opened a barber shop.
NXmBN TIL that from the TV hit show Pawn Stars, Chumlee was involved in the m*rder of a woman and Adam the son overdosed
xMdb TIL that a woman in India once calculated the multiplication of two 13-digit numbers - 7,686,369,774,870 × 2,465,099,745,779 - correctly in just 28 seconds.