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TIL in New York the penalty for jumping off a building is Death

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Y7bQA TIL All passengers and crew aboard National Airlines Flight 2511 from New York to Miami were killed on 6 January 1960 when a bomb exploded aboard the plane in mid-flight. The FBI investigation is still open and no suspects have been named.
kY6W TIL that the United States is the only high-income country (and one of eight in the world) that does not provide paid maternal leave.
4kZpX TIL that Helena Bonham Carter reprised her role as Lady Tottington (from the 2005 Wallace & Gromit: The Curse Of the Were-Rabbit film) in a Wallace & Gromit sofa Commercial, back in 2019.
PYaQZ TIL that the French military actually has the best military record of the last 800 years
J7vj TIL Chinese films used to use Chinese actors in “whiteface,” using wigs and nose prosthetics to play Caucasians