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TIL that J Bruce Ismay spent the rest of his life after The Titanic, in raising money for sailors, donating over a million pounds in today’s terms of his own money.

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j40X TIL that in 1985 JAL flight 123, a Boeing 747 flying from Tokyo to Osaka, lost its tail mid-flight. During the 32 minute descent and then crash into the mountains, many passengers wrote goodbye notes to their loved ones on airplane drink napkins. Of the 520 passengers on board, 4 survived.
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