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TIL: some pirates say they've been hired by companies to hijack a ship and "lose it" so that the companies can gain the insurance money

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OowlL TIL Johnny Appleseed (John Chapman) was not only a nurseryman who introduced apple trees to large parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, West Virginia and Ontario. He was a vegitarian who loved animals dearly and had a pet wolf that followed him after he healed its injured leg.
9daD TIL that Jason Mewes memorized the entire screenplay of Dogma before filming, because he “didn’t want to piss off that Rickman dude.”
wLrW8 TIL that the infamous 1971 D.B.Cooper plane hijacking remains the only unsolved case of air piracy in commercial aviation history. The FBI officially suspended their active investigation in July 2016. The 60-volume case file is open to the public to read.
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