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TIL the Hindenburg airship which infamously exploded in 1937 was constructed with aluminum salvaged from the wreckage of a British R101 airship that crashed in 1930 killing 48 passengers.

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gMyk7 TIL of the five naked eye planets. "Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn have been known since ancient times and can easily be seen with the naked eye if one knows when and where to look."
BgM0L TIL that 75% of the images in Ikea's product catalogue were computer generated...in 2014
g6bX TIL a Chinese assassin once killed a king by spending years training as a royal chief, preparing the kings favorite kind of fish and when presenting it to him pulling out a sword he baked into it and stabbing him to death.
d8wwK TIL Charles Manson tried out Scientology and subsequently declared it as "too crazy"
RRM6 TIL in 1740, a 16-Year-Old English Boy, having been convicted of rape and murder, was hanged by the neck for 20 minutes. After being cut down, his body was sent to be dissected when he began to show signs of life. After making a full recovery, his sentence was commuted to exile.