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TIL that before the atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima, a B29 weather reconnaissance plane called Straight Flush flew over the city to determine if conditions were favourable. Its pilot, Claude Eatherly later expressed remorse, received psychiatric hospitalisation, and engaged in anti-nuclear activism.

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KRL9 TIL that when Uwe Boll made a bid to direct the Warcraft movie, Blizzard responded, “We will not sell the movie rights, not to you… especially not to you”
v17gx TIL Margaret Clitherow (died 1586) was executed for the crime of harboring Catholic priests, at a time when it was a capital offence by the Jesuits, etc. Act 1584. Although still pregnant with her fourth child, she was crushed to death by her own door.
DAAr TIL that 17th and 18th century English-speaking pirates probably talked just like any other sailors of the day. Most phrases considered ‘pirate talk’ come from a 1950s Disney movie, Treasure Island.
E7rd TIL CNN’s founder Ted Turner, at the launch of the channel in 1980, promised: “We won’t be signing off until the world ends. … We’ll be … covering it live. … [And] when the end of the world comes, we’ll play ‘Nearer My God to Thee’ before we sign off.”
6dkl TIL in 1994 Crayola release scented crayons but had to retire the food scented ones after a year because parents complained that they “smelled good enought to eat”