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TIL that Hannibal Buress hired a lookalike to attend the movie premiere for “Spider-Man: Homecoming” in his place for $500 and it worked for the most part

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xVNK0 TIL the phrase "Beam me up Scotty" has never appeared in a single episode of Star Trek
gMkvL TIL Flying Tiger Flight 66 - a 747 cargo flight - crashed into a hill after its crew mistook ATC request "descend two four zero zero [2400]" for "descend to four zero zero [400]"
4Xgoa TIL the creator of Mother’s Day, Anna Jarvis, became increasingly upset at the commercialisation of the holiday and in 1943 even started a petition to rescind it
5Pep TIL Eastern Airlines closed so suddenly in 1991 that thousands of passengers and crew were left stranded across the country as their connecting flights, or return flights, were suddenly cancelled.
bQD7 TIL Alan Parsons (the audio engineer of Dark Side of the Moon) rejected Pink Floyd’s invitation to work as the audio engineer of “Wish You Were Here” and started Alan Parsons Project