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TIL after CIA agents John Downey and Richard Fecteau were captured in China, premier Zhou Enlai offered to release them if the US acknowledged them as agents. US secretary of state Dulles not only refused but also forbade others from cooperating, resulting in them being imprisoned for 20 years.

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jxgQ TIL in 1978, a landing gear indicator light malfunctioned on a passenger jet approaching Portland, OR. In a holding pattern, the crew spent over an hour inspecting the issue until the jet ran out of fuel and crashed, killing 10 people. The landing gear had actually been down all along.
b9Lm4 TIL of Anthony de Lucy, 3rd Baron Lucy. De Lucy was an English knight and crusader who died on campaign in the year 1368. In 1981 De Lucy's extremely well preserved remains were found in a crypt beneath the ruins of St. Bees Abbey in Lincolnshire, England, which had since become a car park.
5VwbR TIL that Liberia, Africa was founded in the early 1800s by the American Colonization Society (ACS), a group of Afro-Americans/Afro-Caribbeans, funded largely by white Americans. Liberia was run by the minority descendants of the Americo-Liberians until the assassination of President Tolbert in 1980.
Oo8OL Nero, Stalin and Bin Laden were all fans, but what makes verse so appealing to these leaders? Benjamin Ramm explores the connection between ruthlessness and sentimentality.
N78g8 TIL that since 2019, 5 different actors have portrayed Bruce Wayne/Batman live action, or 12 if you count voice actors.