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b5x9 TIL that Pornhub has been contributing to charity since 2012. They have ran charity campaigns that planted trees, provided free breast cancer checks and donated to panda conversation charities.
OoPVa TIL In 1986 an Aeroflot pilot, bet with his co-pilot that he could land the plane flying blind, he curtained all the cockpit windows and crashed the plane, killing 70 out of the 94 passengers, the pilot survived.
BrkWb TIL the man who assassinated Robert Kennedy is alive and serving a lifetime prison sentence. He has been denied parole 15 times and continues to claim he has no memory of the murder. He was stabbed multiple times by another inmate in 2019 and survived. He never became an American citizen.
a8Npo TIL the Lenni Lenape, the Native American tribe indigenous to the area between CT & DE, played a sport where 2 teams: 1 all men & 1 all women try to get a ball into the other's goal. The women can carry/pass/kick the ball & tackle. The men couldn't tackle & could only kick/dislodge the ball.
OG6DY TIL that The New York City blackout of 1977 has 1616 building looted or destroyed and cost about 300 m $ damage