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TIL One day, Seth MacFarlane woke up with a hangover. His travel agent told him his flight was at 8:15 AM when his flight was actually at 7:45 AM. Seth missed his flight. This day was September 11th, 2001, and this flight was American Airlines Flight #11.

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690DJ TIL the Japanese government gifted Dr. Yamanaka, known for his work on induced pluripotent stem cells, 160,000 yen for a washing machine after he won the Nobel Prize, as he mentioned in an interview, "I was in the middle of repairing my washing machine when I heard the news."
vAPj TIL that when Leopold Trouvelot was attempting to breed a better silkworm using Gypsy moths, several of the moths escaped from his home, and within ten years, the insect had denuded the vegetation in the neighborhood, and that’s how the Gypsy moth infestation across North-Eastern America began.
l7a1G TIL of the Visteon Dockable Entertainment System. A portable DVD player capable of playing Game Boy Advance games and fully licensed by Nintendo.
P1ZYG TIL in Red Heat (1988), a Larry Fishburne is credited in the opening titles. This is Laurence Fishburne who opted to use his full first name for his role as Ike Turner in What’s Love Got to Do with It in 1994
R7Xx6 TIL Tony Bennett first ‘met’ his wife Susan Benedetto while she was in the womb. In 1966, her parents met the singer backstage to pose for a picture him whilst her mother was pregnant with her. Bennett said “It’s a photo we all laugh about, knowing the incredible turn of events that followed.”