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TIL in 2015 a plane crashed into the home of the neighbors of Diary of a Wimpy Kid author Jeff Kinney in Plainville, Massachusetts. Three people died in the crash.

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jEEp TIL that France lost so many workers during its failed attempt to dig the Panama Canal, that for a time their project’s MAIN source of income was selling the corpses (pickled in brine water) to medical schools all over the world as cadavers.