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TIL just 2 months after 9/11 an Airbus crashed into a Queens neighborhood, killing all 260 people on board and 5 people on the ground. Despite fears of another terror attack the cause was determined to be pilot error leading to mechanical failure.

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K8Q9 TIL that Morgan Freeman is the only American to ever par the longest and highest par three golf hole in the world.
5Y0vr TIL in 1969, a 14-year-old boy in Toronto pretended he was a professional news photographer and was able to secure an interview with John Lennon, which sat around until it became part of a documentary in 2007
a87o9 TIL that since 1976, the New York Yankees have maintained a strict appearance policy that states: “All players, coaches and male executives are forbidden to display any facial hair other than mustaches, and scalp hair may not be grown below the collar. Long sideburns and muttonchops are not banned.”
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xNlw TIL Originally all humans were lactose intolerant, and those who aren’t lactose intolerant are the ones with a mutation.