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TIL TWA Flight 541 was hijacked in 1978 by the daughter of a woman who was killed while hijacking a helicopter to free a federal prisoner, who was in prison for hijacking a TWA flight in 1972.

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W7OxN TIL [as of 2023] the United States' most populous city, New York City has a larger population than Los Angeles [2nd] and Chicago [3rd] combined
grOBW TIL In the 1950s, U.S. poultry firms dumped turkey tails into Samoa markets. Filled with oil used to preen itself, turkey tails are 75% fat and are frequently washed down with a cold Budweiser. Due to its ties to the obesity epidemic, Samoan officials banned turkey tail imports in 2007.
mxBby TIL about Marine Iguanas, an Iguana species which only lives on the Galápagos Islands and looks like a small Godzilla
PJdw TIL the primitive immune system of a horseshoe crab makes them useful to humans. Every drug certified by the FDA must be tested using an extract from their blood cells. Their blood is worth ~$15,000 a quart. A horseshoe crab can be bled, returned to the ocean, and after time, can give blood again.
BBGy TIL ‘Breaking Bad’ is in the Guinness book of world records as “the highest rated show of all time”.