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TIL PanAm Airlines Once Operated a Guided Missile Division

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m1kjx TIL In 1991 both former Senator John Tower of Texas (head of the Tower Commission for the Iran–Contra affair) and astronaut Manley "Sonny" Carter died in the same commuter plane crash in Georgia.
d7E9 TIL high-fructose corn syrup may be tied to worldwide collapse of bee colonies
OGjXX TIL that Kale, Broccoli, Cabbage, Savoy Cabbage, Purple Cabbage, Cauliflower and many others are not different species of plant, but "breeds" of the same species Brassica oleracea, the same way a chihuahua and a poodle are both dogs
bdm4 TIL Kevin Spacey once directed and starred in a biopic - Beyond the Sea. Not only did he play crooner Bobby Darin, he chose to perform all of Darin’s songs himself.
JavQ TIL Wilmington, North Carolina is the only city in the entire history of the United States to have its elected government violently overthrown in 1898.