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TIL the navigator Henry Hudson was cast adrift by mutineers, along with his son and six others in 1611, in Hudson Bay. They were never seen again.

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L7lv 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.
X8XQ TIL that a business in Texas still uses a 1949 IBM 402 punched card computer. It still runs all of its accounting work (payroll, sales, and inventory) through the IBM 402.
ENmp TIL a construction company destroyed a Mayan temple from 200BC and was fined only $24,000
78kDp TIL In 2016, teen entrepreneur Taylor Rosenthal rejected a $30M offer for his ''high school project startup'', selling first-aid vending machines. However, it was later exposed as a scam orchestrated by Kyle Sandler, who conned $1.9M from Opelika investors with fabricated deals and press releases
4YGa TIL that on April 12, 1955, Edward R. Murrow asked Jonas Salk who owned the patent to the polio vaccine, his response was “Well, the people, I would say… There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?”