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TIL that Ben S. Cauley, Jr. was the sole survivor of the plane crash that killed singer Otis Redding & 6 other people in 1967. Cauley took off his seat belt shortly before the crash. He managed to cling to a seat cushion for 20 minutes, until a rescue boat pulled him from the freezing lake waters.

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Yp58v TIL that Team America: World Release initially received an NC-17 rating due to the sex scene. The initial cut lasted a minute and a half and showed the puppets urinating and defecating on each other. Nine edits were shown to the MPAA before it was approved and cut down to 50 seconds.
6E46m TIL in 1948, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that film studios can't own movie theaters, thus breaking up their oligopoly. Before its ruling, Hollywood studios owned movie theaters to hold exclusive rights of showing their films, angering independent producers including Walt Disney and Charlie Chaplin.
n88B TIL that Alan Eustacea computer scientist and Google’s Senior Vice President of Knowledge, broke Felix Baumgartner’s record for highest-altitude freefall jump at 25.74 miles.
BrONk TIL Shenzhou 3, launched in 2002, lasted 6 days and carried a dummy into orbit to simulate physiological signals of a human — palpitation, pulse, breathing, eating, metabolism, and excretion
xVQK5 TIL historically, pleats (folds in a chef's hat) represented how many recipes a chef knew. A chef with 100 pleats may know 100 different ways to boil an egg or prepare a chicken.