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p4Mb TIL Jimi Hendrix insisted on being the final performer at the 1969 Woodstock and was scheduled to perform Sunday at midnight. He didn’t take the stage until 9 A.M. on Monday morning and played for 2 hours to a dwindling audience.
VBWMp TIL the Boeing factory in Seattle is so massive that rain clouds began to form inside the facility until a state-of-the-art air circulation system was installed
ne0dr TIL of a 1972 CIA project to wiretap enemy phone lines deep within North Vietnam. The helicopter used in the operation, developed at Area 51, was the quietest ever built. In the dead of night, its pilots flew 100-200 feet above North Vietnamese farmers and anti-aircraft guns without being detected.
dDp4Z TIL about Sarah Wells, a black Wisconsin woman who earned her High School Diploma at 92 years old. "I want to take a course in Botany... I do not know where else I can go, but I am sure there is something else I can do."
9YYVX TIL: if you hold your nose while sneezing you increase you chances of rupturing your ear drum, breaking a blood vessel in your eye, weaken a blood vessel in your brain, and / or cause injury to your diaphragm