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TIL of Vitaly Kaloyev, a Russian man who lost his family in a 2002 airliner collision. 2 years later Vitaly tracked down the air traffic controller responsible for the crash, murdered him in front of his family, served 3 years in prison, and then returned home to a hero’s welcome.

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7r4yX TIL Beaufort's Dyke is a deep sea trench off the coast of Northern Ireland that the British have used to dump thousands of tonnes of munitions and nuclear waste. There are explosions happening down there that register on seismographs.
pY548 TIL There's a School in Washington State in which their school bus has to cut through Canada twice a day every day to take kids to and from school
6Ekb7 TIL of Forrest Spaulding who in 1938 drafted a Library Bill of Rights against censorship. When challenged for a library copy of Mein Kampf he responded, "if more people had read it, Hitler's despotism might have been prevented". Spaulding's bill was later adopted by the American Library Association.
RAo8 TIL Alan Alda is the only actor to appear in all 251 episodes of the long-running series MAS*H. He commuted from Los Angeles to his home in New Jersey, where his wife and daughters lived, every weekend for the 11-year-run of the show, because he didn’t know how long the show would last.
4XMjw TIL that during the Bengal famine of 1943, Canada, US, and Australia made offers to export wheat to India, but Winston Churchill said India has adequate stocks and instead diverted the food stocks to the Mediterranean to stock up for the Tunisia Campaign. Three million Indians died due to the famine