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TIL Hunter S. Thompson and Richard Nixon had a conversation about football for over an hour in Nixon’s car, after which Thompson almost accidentally blew up Nixon’s plane with a cigarette

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vPNLj TIL Jagadeesh Pillai took over four years to record, edit and mix the longest officially released song, lasting 138 hr 41 min 20 sec. Pillai sung the entire book of the poetic work “Shri Ram Charit Manas”
BrMmL TIL that in 2003, an Airbus A300 cargo plane landed safely in Baghdad despite being struck by a missile on the left wing, losing a fuel tank, and losing all hydraulic control surfaces, forcing the pilots to guide the plane to an airport using only engine thrust to steer the plane.
p840Q TIL that Angkor, the capital of the Khmer empire, was the largest city in the world during the middle ages. At 1,350 sq. miles, it was bigger than modern day NYC and Tokyo combined.
69m0W TIL that the site for modern-day Vatican City was originally a circus for Roman Emperor Nero called Circus of Nero.
OobbL TIL Psychologist B.F. Skinner tried to train pigeons to serve as guides for bombing runs in WWII. After canceling the project, he successfully taught the pigeons to play ping pong instead.