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OGMKL TIL that in Italy it’s considered rude to pour wine by gripping the body of the bottle, palm up. It’s called “the traitor’s way” because it’s how people in 15-16th centuries would covertly slip poison into the wine from a signet “poison ring”. The correct way is to hold the very end of the bottle.
xVOab TIL that in 1971 an unidentified man hijacked a plane in the northwest United States, obtained $200,000 in ransom money (equivalent to $1,260,000 today) and parachuted into the night, never to be heard from again. Fifteen copycat hijackings were attempted in 1972, all of which were unsuccessful.
mx7Op TIL a US Air Force plane crashed into an elementary school in Okinawa, killing 11 children and injuring 156 more. The pilot ejected and escaped unharmed.
jvBE TIL the last time a black man was lynched by the KKK was in 1981, and the police officers first on scene first presumed it was a drug deal gone wrong.
RkP8 TIL a sample of Sir Isaac Newton’s apple tree was sent into space to ‘defy gravity.’