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TIL 3 men escaped Alcatraz in a raft made of raincoats. The FBI never found them.

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11ad TIL “Macho Man” Randy Savage released a rap album in 2003, which included a diss track aimed at Hulk Hogan
yXAl TIL in 1918 a carrier pigeon saved 194 American soldiers by delivering a message to nearby support despite having been blinded in one eye, shot through the breast, covered in blood, and with a leg hanging on by just a tendon.
D181P TIL about Grayson's syndrome, a syndrome so rare it's named after the only known case who is a little boy obsessed with baseball.
YKAx TIL of the corn field bomber. A fighter jet that landed itself on a cornfield after the pilot ejected from it following an unrecoverable spin. His act of ejection changed the center of gravity of the plane allowing it recover. It went back into service after minor repair work.
D1eOe TIL The Black Panthers started what later became U.S.'s School Breakfast Program which feeds nearly 13 million students every day.