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TIL the FBI will reward $10000 to anyone who reports people who shoot lasers at planes.

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69ykm TIL that Napster was active for just 2 years, from June 1999 to July 2001
X0D8E TIL the dot over lowercase “i” is called a tittle
d8PA7 TIL Bryan Ferry (of Roxy Music) was on a flight to Nairobi when a mentally ill passenger broke into the cockpit and attacked the pilots. During the struggle the plane dropped 12,000 feet in 25 seconds, which is the fastest rate of descent from which any civil aircraft has ever recovered.
6BMw TIL: 78% of NFL players and 60% of NBA players go bankrupt in the first 5 years.
VMQbD TIL the original "laugh track" used in sitcoms was a physical instrument like an organ, was held under lock and key, and was owned and operated by only one man who knew how it worked. Charley Douglass used his "laff box" to create the laugh track for almost every sitcom in the 50s, 60s, and 70s.