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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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VMBAp TIL the "artificial banana flavour" we know today tastes more like the type of banana that was the main variety up until the 1950's, when it was wiped out by a fungus.
l7L5G TIL Herb Alpert is the only musician in history to have reached No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 as both a vocalist ("This Guy's in Love with You", 1968) and as an instrumentalist ("Rise", 1979)
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