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TIL that in 2003, two men stole and flew a Boeing 727 from Angola’s Luanda Airport, and neither the aircraft nor the men have ever been found.

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nARP TIL your body produces 3 highly illegal narcotics (DMT, GHB, and Morphine)
MeZJA TIL the politicization of science likely led to the famine deaths of millions in the USSR and China
QnEp TIL a man named Peter Wade derailed a train in 1982 to see what would happen, crushing the engineer who used his body to protect a teenager. Wade later went to WallStreet and made millions trading stock and then became a hollywood filmmaker.
A4ml TIL The Polish government funded CD Projekt RED, granting them 7 Million US$ to make their upcoming game, Cyberpunk 2077
4p9J TIL that a 7-year old Australian boy broke into a reptile zoo, killed 13 reptiles then fed them all to a 440 pound 11’ saltwater crocodile, also in that same zoo.