Post * NXypQ — Curious Curator

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TIL when D.B. Cooper hijacked NOA flight 305 in 1971, this was the 'Golden Age of Hijackings' with an average of 1 hijacking every 5 days. Amazingly, until Cooper successfully parachuted out of the plane at 10,000 feet into the freezing cold with $200,000, hijacking a plane was not a federal crime.

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4vBo TIL in 1968 Kim Il Sung sent 31 commandos to South Korea to try and assassinate the president. After they infiltrated the border they stumbled on two brothers chopping firewood. They decided to indoctrinate them about the benefits of communism and release them. The brothers notified the police

bJwE TIL the film “Demolition Man” was released in two different editions. The U.S. Release which featured Taco Bell as the prominent Fast Food franchise of the future, and the International Release which featured Pizza Hut instead.

wLlkM TIL that 1 to 5 percent of children are afflicted with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome - in some Native American reservations it is 1 in 4

l7RpG TIL of the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Cup, a trophy for the predecessor organisation to the NFL, awarded just once in 1920 before being lost. A replacement trophy was commissioned 13 years later, before also disappearing after 1967.

GAaZ7 TIL After the killing of his father, Philip II, Alexander blamed Persia and overthrew the Persian Empire in response, but Aristotle and others claim Philip was assassinated by an angry ex-lover enraged that Philip didn’t avenge him after he was revenge-raped at the behest of another lover’s friend.