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TIL: Tupac Shakur accidentally shot and killed a 6 year-old boy (while famous)

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8aLVa TIL About Washing Machine Charlie, a WW2 Japanese pilot who would fly by American bases at night with unsynchronized engines which would wake up the Americans.
OZ9L TIL: In 1948 the Ford company was offered the Volkswagen company free of charge and declined the offer because it “wasn’t worth a damn”.
5rNp TIL Eminem is a huge fan of Donkey Kong, and owns two Donkey Kong machines autographed by engineer Steve Wiebe. His hiscore of 465,800 ranks him among the 30 best players of all time.
M7oP7 TIL prevailing local lore credits the Shaka to Hamana Kalili who lost the three middle fingers of his right hand while working at a sugar mill. Kalili was then shifted to guarding the sugar train, and his all-clear wave is said to have evolved into the shaka as children imitated the gesture.
grjb TIL the first aircraft to be intentionally shot down by another aircraft went down on October 5, 1914, when the observer in one plane shot the pilot in another plane with a hand gun.