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TIL between '87 and '92 six Boeing aircraft had complete engines just fall off in flight, and three of those times the other engine on the wing was knocked off as well.

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p8A1A TIL When a 39-year old James Watson lectured at the Lindau Meeting in 1967, he was the second youngest Nobel Laureate to do so. The youngest, Rudolf Mößbauer, Nobel Laureate in Physics 1961, gave his first Lindau lecture at the unusually low age of 36
awel0 TIL that Milton Friedman served as an advisor to Chilean Dictator Augusto Pinochet did not criticize Pinochet's dictatorship at the time, nor the assassinations, illegal imprisonments, torture, or other atrocities that were well known by then.
wLK4M TIL it used to be improper for women to smoke, but a single PR stunt changed all that. In 1929, women were hired to light up while marching in a parade, calling the cigarettes "Torches of Freedom." So smoking became a symbol of equal rights, and sales skyrocketed.
Oba4 TIL The D-day landing scene in Saving Private Ryan was so violent the film should have received an NC-17 rating, however received an R rating due to the “masterpiece exception.”
VOO0 TIL during the filming of “Titanic” someone put the drug PCP in lobster chowder that was served to the cast and crew. 80 people were hospitalized with hallucinations. Upon hearing of this James Cameron made himself vomit before the effects of the drug fully kicked in.