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TIL that when Japan Airlines flight 123 crashed in Japan in 1985 killing over 500 people, a JAL maintenance official negotiating compensation with families killed himself to apologize for the accident.

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QLZp TIL that a hostage in the Iranian Embassy Siege was released due to his loud snoring which kept up other hostages up at night.
OQaX TIL that when the KKK was founded the KKK consisted of a group of Southern whites Democrats who were targeting Republicans with violence because they knew that given the chance, the blacks would vote Republican.
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