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D1vpg TIL that in 1969, Candid Camera host Allen Funt was on a plane that was hijacked by two men demanding passage to Cuba. The passengers, having spotted Funt, believed the situation to be a hidden camera prank. He could not convince them otherwise until the plane actually landed in Cuba.
N9Qe TIL the three wise monkeys (see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil) are sometimes portrayed with a fourth ‘do no evil’ monkey with his hands covering his genitals.
RN5w TIL Russia Outproduces Saudi Arabia in Oil Production by 1,000,000 barrels per day.
gM06b TIL that Napoleon fought more then 70 battles in his career and lost only 8, mostly at the end
XEoPE TIL: One of the things that initiated the downfall of Harvard educated money launderer Franklin Jurado was his neighbor in Luxembourg filing a noise complaint against him, because Jurado had a money-counting machine running all night