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TIL that Frank Sinatra was offered the lead role in Die Hard

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WNmY TIL slain American activist Rachel Corrie’s parents sued Israel for a symbolic one U.S. dollar in damages to make the point that their case was about justice for their daughter. In 2012, an Israeli court rejected their suit.
LkdG0 TIL in 1978 a Jumbo Jet bound for JFK airport with400 passengers lost an engine and was about to crash on a crowded Athens neighborhood, but Just 57 meters above ground the pilot managed to safely land on a mountain. Based on flight data gathered afterwards, the plane crashed in every simulation
xaAB TIL Pirate Benjamin Hornigold once attacked a ship just to take their hats.
LQdnV TIL some churches have a hagioscope (or squint), a hole in a wall which allowed segregated worshippers to view the altar, one London church had to admonish nuns who got into the habit of kissing ‘secular persons’ via the squint
vPZQ7 TIL as of 2013, war criminal and former Liberia president Charles Taylor is serving a 50-year sentence in a prison in Durham, England