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TIL that on 9/11/2001, North East Air Defense Sector commanding officer Kevin Nasypany remarked "The hijack's not supposed to be for another hour" because they had scheduled a simulation involving politically motivated asylum-seekers hijacking a plane & landing it on a Cuba-like island

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N7m8M TIL that Shakespeare’s scripts contain over 2200 never-before-seen words—a diverse collection of loan-words from foreign languages, compound words from existing English terms, nouns turned into verbs, and creatively applied prefixes—many of which have entered into everyday language.
wM9J TIL many Americans who need mental health services never get it because doing so could disqualify them from receiving life insurance
rN484 TIL that in 1992 video game magazine, EGM, published an article that, as an April fools joke, alluded to the presence of a hidden character in Street Fighter named Sheng Long. This joke took off and so many people bought into it they eventually actually did add a Sheng Long character to the series
0dbyj today i learned that Incas, the last carolina parakeet who died in 1918, died in the same cage in the Cincinnati zoo as Martha, the last passenger pigeon, who died 4 years prior
lonJ7 TIL that during WWII Audie Murphy earned every US Army combat award for valor, and several French and Belgian awards for heroism. He earned the Medal of Honor at 19 for holding off a company of German soldiers for an hour, then leading a successful counter attack while out of ammo and wounded.