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TIL: Scientists considered bombing Japanese volcanoes in World War II to trigger eruptions.

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bk1Q TIL Both of Jack Black’s parents were Aerospace Engineers who worked on the Apollo 11 mission.
LGpV TIL white roses in names of 9/11 victims represent it’s their birthday
KYQnG TIL In 2003, two men stole & flew a Boeing 727-223 parked at the Luanda International Airport (in Angola) and neither of them was qualified to fly the plane. The plane & the men are missing to date.
xVOlo TIL that when trying to expand into the China in the late 1980s, KFC mistakenly mistranslated their famous “It’s Finger Lickin’ Good” slogan to “Eat Your Fingers Off”
g5AL TIL that last surviving witness to the Abraham Lincoln assassination lived long enough to be interviewed about it on television.