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TIL An Air New Zealand hijacking ended when one of the cabin crew struck the hijacker in the head with a whiskey bottle

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AkB7 TIL no instrumental song reached number one in USA since 1985.
9rGM TIL classical and heavy metal music attract listeners with similar personalities but dissimilar ages. Younger people of the personality type like metal, older counterparts like classical. Both share their motivation: to hear something dramatic and theatrical, a “love of the grandiose.“
r6Yo TIL that the flood scene was so wildly out of control in “Noah’s Ark” (1928) that three extras drowned and one lost a leg. Michael Curtiz - the director - is best known for his film “Casablanca”.
Wwe9 TIL that before the Holocaust, Adolph Hitler initiated the T4 Euthanasia Program to kill the incurably ill, physically or mentally disabled, emotionally distraught, and elderly people.
nWxbb TIL There's a type of tick in the U.S. called the 'lone star tick' (Amblyomma americanum) whose bite can make you permanently allergic to red meat and milk. The lone star tick is unique in that it can transmit a molecule that causes alpha-gal syndrome, a food allergy to red meat.