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TIL John Gilpin, an amateur photographer, was testing his new camera lens at the airport and caught a 14 year old boy falling from the wheel well of Japan Air Lines DC-8

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GwB5 TIL if you write any number in words (English), count the number of letters, write this new number in words and so on, you’ll end with number 4
08K1 TIL a man was cleared of murder charges after outtake footage shot for Curb Your Enthusiasm showed him attending a Los Angeles Dodgers baseball game some 20 miles from the crime scene at the time of the murder
4eRg TIL The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier Guard Identification Badge is the second least-awarded decoration of the United States military with the first being the Astronaut Badge
m1JMv TIL that mini-horses are also employed as service animals and are protected in law much the same as a service dog.
9YMnD TIL in 1953, a paper boy acquired a hollowed-out nickel containing a ciphered message while collecting for his deliveries. He told the daughter of an NYPD officer and the news got to the FBI, eventually leading to the arrest and conviction of KGB agent Vilyam Fisher four years later.