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TIL Tim Burton's directorial debut was Pee-wee's Big Adventure

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Avkn TIL in 1965 a Boeing 707 had an engine blow up during flight and take 25 feet of wing with it. The plane made a safe emergency landing. Boeing then sent a second plane to pick up the stranded passengers and the front landing gear of that plane collapsed on the runway.
9w4XQ TIL that prior to making A Beautiful Mind, Ron Howard developed a different film about a man overcoming schizophrenia. Laws of Madness was an inspirational film about Michael Laudor, a Yale Law School graduate living with schizophrenia. The film was called off when Laudor murdered his girlfriend.
16BAD TIL That the golden record on each of the Voyager space craft carries a recording of someone saying "Friends of space, how are you all? Have you eaten yet? Come visit us if you have time." in Amoy, a dialect of Chinese, along with a diagram showing Earth's exact location.
nWlWG TIL the Battle of Nechtansmere in 685 was one of the most significant in Britain, because it smashed the power of the Angles, allowing the Saxons to dominate to the south, and prevented what became Scotland from being absorbed by the rest of Britain
Wkx04 Ever looked at a picture of the supercontinent Pangea and wondered where your current address would have been 250 million years ago? A new interactive map provides this very service, allowing you to see modern locations across 750 million years of our planet’s history.