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TIL Colonel Sanders was not seen wearing anything other than his white suit for the later part of his life.

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W7XVo TIL Helios 522 was a case of a "Ghost Plane", the cabin didn't pressurize and all but one on board passed out from hypoxia. The plane circled in a holding pattern for hours driven by autopilot before flight attendant Andreas Prodromou took over the controls, crashing into a rural hillside.
e86k TIL that the US requires all cars made after 2018 to have a backup camera installed.
WEKN TIL that a size 8 at Banana Republic is a size 2 at The Gap.
9Ylrm TIL that in 1976, a giant inflatable pig being used in a Pink Floyd photo shoot broke free and caused all flights at London Heathrow to be grounded and the Royal Air Force to send helicopters to search for it. It landed in a farmer's field unscathed where it scared all of his cows.
5ej9 TIL that Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln held a seance in the white house after the loss of their son.