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TIL REM's "What's the Frequency Kenneth" was inspired by an attack on Dan Rather.

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78L0P TIL of Maurice Wilson who, against all odds, flew his own plane from England to India to be the first to summit Everest under the assumption that ‘prayer and fasting’ would give him the strength to reach the peak.
KVZw TIL that in the USSR there was group call the League of Militant Atheist who spread atheist propaganda, destroyed churches and helped their government detain and kill religious individuals in Russia.
oDdY TIL in 1985, a Colombian girl was trapped in a volcanic mudflow, and was trapped up to her waist. She was mostly alert and was interviewed. Knowing she would die, volunteers and rescuer did their best to comfort her. She died after 60 hours, and her photo became iconic.
jNJbn TIL 20th Century Fox, convinced that Star Wars was going to flop, agreed to George Lucas’s proposition to forgo an additional $500K directing fee in return to keep licensing and merchandising rights for himself. This decision cost Fox billions and made George Lucas a Billionaire.
ZZDp TIL when his Mercury space capsule lost power, Astronaut Gordon Cooper used a only a wristwatch, his knowledge of star patterns, and math estimations to correct the pitch for Earth re-entry