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TIL an Indian flight attendant hid the passports of American passengers on a hijacked flight to save them from the Islamic terrorists. She died while shielding three children from a hail of bullets.

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VMwmk TIL at the 1912 Olympics, a marathon runner quit and went home to Japan without telling officials and was considered a missing person in Sweden for 50 years. In 1966, he was invited to complete the marathon. His time: 54 years, 8 months, 6 days, 5 hours, 32 minutes and 20.379 seconds.
vPZEx TIL the shortest war in history was just 38 minutes.
bpna TIL that Abraham Lincoln’s only living son Robert, was at both Garfield and McKinley’s assassinations but not at his father’s.
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gW8 TIL That Americans Are As Likely to Be Killed by Their Own Furniture As by Terrorism