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TIL Plane hijackings used to be common in the US by Cuban-Americans wanting to return to Cuba. In a 7 year span from 1968-1974, 130 planes were hijacked.

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6E1Bl TIL Peter Sellers lines in the classic flick Dr Strangelove were mostly improvised by Sellers on the set, including the spontaneous uncontrollable Nazi salute. Kubrick then included the lines in the official screenplay via retroscripting. The character was based on former Nazi Wernher von Braun
PdwL TIL that in 1994, an American figure skater hired a hitman to smash the leg of her main rival.
ney4b TIL that two men led a team of 80 people to collect over 1.2 million golden orb spiders, milk them for their silk, and create the rarest textile on earth: a golden silk cape
9jGM TIL in 2022, two stars in the constellation Cygnus will collide causing a red nova explosion that will be about as bright in our sky as Polaris, the North Star
R6l7 TIL “Judas Goats” are sterilized and radio collared goats that are used to locate other feral goats for eradication.