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TIL One in Every Ten Children In Sudan Die Before Their Fifth Birthday

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e0B94 TIL on May 25, 2000, Philippines Airlines flight 812 was hijacked by a man who robbed the passengers of their valuables and then asked the pilot to depressurise the plane so that he could jump out. He was pushed by a flight attendant out from the plane and his body was found three days later.
8eBxV TIL Originally Abraham Lincoln wanted a complete separation of white and black Americans. He proposed voluntary emigration to Central America, with the first destination being “Île à Vache, a.k.a. Cow Island”, which did not get clearance from Haiti, and failed spectacularly due to lack of housing
QJ0pk TIL the children's cartoon Arthur is still producing new episodes and is on its 21st season, and has been running longer than South Park
6En9J TIL of Robert Maheu, an American businessman and lawyer, who worked for the FBI and CIA, and as the chief executive of Nevada operations for the industrialist Howard Hughes. He recruited the mob to assassinate Fidel Castro and his investigative agency was a model for television's Mission Impossible.
X0oDP TIL of an annual celebration in a town in Colorado called Frozen Dead Guy Days. It loosely celebrates the frozen body of a deceased Norwegian grandfather