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TIL Frank Abagnale portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio in Catch Me If You Can escaped prison by convincing a group of guards that he was actually an undercover prison inspector pretending to be an inmate

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Zp84G TIL in San Francisco, the artists Winston Smith and Jayed Scotti distributed false posters for bands and clubs that didn't exist. Often, the addresses shown on the flyers were located in the Pacific Ocean.
OoDme TIL the farthest a person has ever fallen and survived is at least 33,330 feet. Serbian flight attendant Vesna Vulovic was blown out of a plane when a bomb went off in its baggage compartment in 1972. She had no memory of the event and wasn't afraid to fly afterward.
xojb TIL Robert E. Lee defended the torture of slaves as something “they must endure,” because “pain was necessary for their instruction.” Lee regularly had mothers sold or rented away from their children, sometimes as punishment. Lee’s slaves said he was the “meanest man we ever saw.”
J1rKm TIL about TREE(3), a number so large that every digit in it would not fit in the universe, yet scientists don’t know what it is.
NGOQ TIL that ice was shipped from Boston around the world. Frederick Tudor, who basically had a monopoly on the trade, became known as “The Ice King” and was one of the wealthiest people in the world.