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81DK TIL there were 1,466 private jet crashes in 2011, resulting in 263 fatalities. The global accident rate for corporate jets is only 1/6th that for owner-operated private jets.
78EOM TIL the artist Patrick Nagel, who created the cover art for Duran Duran's Rio album, died of a heart attack after a 15-min. celebrity Aerobathon to raise money for the American Heart Association
GrYj TIL one of the first books burned by Nazis, Heinrich Heine play, contained a famous line “Where they burn books, they will in the end also burn people”
oB0wK TIL that the Allies liberated Paris from the Nazis on 8/25/44.
GYpOQ TIL that Hridayeshwar Singh Bhati (born 3 September 2002) is an Indian student who, at the age of 9 and with his father's assistance, invented a six-player variant of chess. He earned a patent for his invention in 2012, making him the youngest patent-holder in India at that time.