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TIL the number of Americans who don’t read books has nearly tripled since 1978.

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N7Zo1 TIL The Star Wars (1977) attack run scene was heavily influenced by the Dam Busters (1955) bombing run (based on the true story of a low flying bombing run, deep in Axis territory, amidst enemy fire, with a very narrow target window to hit a weak point in enourmous enemy targets. Sound familiar?).
9wQv6 TIL: The eruption of Krakatoa in 1883 was the loudest sound in recorded history, heard 3,000 miles (4800 KM) away.
kj8m TIL that a woman in Vancouver was found dead in a yard, she had been drugged, strangled and her hands and feet were tied behind her back. Her death was ruled a suicide.
BrdkL TIL that Jimi Hendrix’s national anthem performance at Woodstock was meant to be a protest to the Vietnam war. In the song he makes sounds that are supposed to symbolize bombs dropping and screams of people.
ZpPeo TIL Rhoda Abbott, 39, was the only woman aboard Titanic to survive going into the freezing water- every other female survivor was lowered in a lifeboat- and the only woman aboard after 2:05 A.M. to survive. Abbott swam to Collapsible A and climbed aboard, but lost her 2 teenage sons in the chaos.