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TIL that two months after escaping the World Trade Center on 9/11, a 26-year old woman died on American Airlines Flight 587 that crashed in Queens, New York, killing 265.

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kk87 TIL In 2011, people playing Foldit, an online puzzle game about protein folding, resolved the structure of an enzyme that causes an Aids-like disease in monkeys. Researchers had been working on the problem for 13 years. The gamers solved it in three weeks.
x6yQ5 TIL there have been at least 68 cases of homicidal sleepwalking. A famous case from 1981 had a man unconsciously stab his wife 26 times. The court found him not guilty by reason of temporary insanity. Because he was sane at the time of the trial, he was not sent to a psychiatric hospital.
6MJ7 TIL that the original plan for the May 15 Incident, an attempted coup d'état in Japan in 1932, was to assassinate Charlie Chaplin to facilitate war with the US. When the prime minister was killed, Chaplin was with the prime minister’s son watching a sumo wrestling match, which saved their lives.
gmoy TIL The U.S. ranks 3rd in liking the United States.
X0AgQ TIL Unlike most of his astronaut colleagues, Apollo 13 astronaut Jack Swigert was single and had the reputation of being a playboy who liked to party