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TIL during WW2, Lyndon B. Johnson had his seat stolen by Lt. Col. Francis R. Stevens on the Wabash Cannonball after returning from a bathroom break. The plane would be downed by the Japanese, killing everyone on board.

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N7lPE TIL that a permit was denied for the production crew of "The Sopranos" to film the episode "Pine Barrens" at South Mountain Reservation by Essex County, New Jersey Executive James Treffinger, due to the show depicting Italians as corrupt, Treffinger was later convicted and imprisoned for corruption
LaLP TIL: Italians called it the French disease, the French called it the Italian disease, today we call it syphilis–and Columbus brought it to Europe from the New World.
yyGM TIL on September 11, 1857, a wagon train heading through Utah toward California was attacked by a Mormon Militia. The militia had disguised themselves as Indians, but once it was suspected that their cover was blown, the Mormons feigned a truce and slaughtered 120 men, women, and children.
695w8 TIL, female elephants in Mozambique are rapidly evolving to not have tusks due to poachers.
nWJbr TIL Niklaus Emil Wirth was a Swiss computer scientist. Among other things, he developed several programming languages and wrote various textbooks. Wirth's Law, according to which software slows down faster than hardware speeds up, is named after him.