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TIL over 95% of pilots land their planes when conditions dictate that they shouldn’t.

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e0pJD TIL Russian Spetsnaz forces used an aerosolized fentanyl derivative to incapacitate Chechen separatists in the Moscow Theatre Hostage Crisis of 2002. About 130 of the 850 total hostages died partly due to the Russian government refusing to tell doctors what the chemical agent was.
9w6v7 TIL the most decorated service member in US Military history, Audie Murphy (1925-1971), and the most decorated Airman in Air Force history, Duane Hackney (1947-1993), both died before the age of 47.
oB0eY TIL about the Civil Cooperation Bureau, an innocuous-sounding civilian agency in apartheid South Africa - it was a actually a death squad responsible for a number of murders and controlled by the Minister of Defence, Magnus Malan
ZpXyo TIL that cows have different accents, depending on which herd they come from.
JYVW8 TIL Robert Altman earned only $70,000 for directing the 1970 film MAS*H, but his 14-year-old son earned over $1 million for writing the lyrics of its epic theme song.