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TIL United airlines promised to help a blind woman off a plane once everyone had gotten off but they just left her there and the maintenance crew had to help her out

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j01a TIL that Leonard Nimoy met many fans who became scientists because of Spock’s example, and talked to the ‘Star Trek’ actor as if he were a fellow researcher. Nimoy always nodded and told them, “Well, it certainly looks like you’re headed in the right direction.”
dxd7 TIL an Indian man was declared dead due to a greedy relative and a corrupt official. He won an Ignoble prize for his 19 year fight to reverse it.
awZOZ TIL that composer Johann Schobert (NOT Schubert) died from eating poisonous mushrooms, after two people told him not to eat them. A doctor friend insisted that they were edible. Schobert, the doctor, his wife, and all but one of his children ate the resulting mushroom soup and died.
yQ0Jl TIL after the Kent State shootings students often got a hostile reaction upon returning home. Some were told that more students should have been killed to teach student protesters a lesson; some students were disowned by their families.
awm1A TIL Queen Elizabeth II specifically asked to be in a James Bond skit with Daniel Craig for the Olympics, breaking royal protocol. When asked if she would like to say something she said, "Of course I must say something. After all, he is coming to rescue me."