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TIL Will Smith is the only actor to have eight consecutive films gross over $100 million in the domestic box office

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QJAZk TIL in 1943, a Japanese destroyer sank an American ship with JFK on board. While everyone assumed the entire crew died, 11 survived and swam to a nearby island. JFK carved a distress note on a coconut shell, and they were rescued.
X0eOr TIL of the 1920 Wall Street bombing which killed 40 people and was never solved and was the deadliest terrorist attack in US then. Although investigators and historians believe it was carried out by Galleanists (Italian anarchists), a group responsible for a series of bombings the previous year.
LkxoV TIL that the German word Elefantenrennen (literally: Elephant Racing) describes the event of one truck overtaking another on the autobahn and thus slowing traffic in the process.
R7jQQ TIL that President Lincoln personally selected the Dakota who were hanged in the largest mass execution is US history.
rL7y TIL on March 9-10, 1945, 300 B29 bombers dropped nearly 500,000 cylinders of napalm and petroleum jelly on Tokyo creating a 40-sq-km firestorm that killed over 100,000 and maimed another million. It was the most destructive single bombing in history, including Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs.