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TIL the first commercial airplane crash that killed more than 100 people happened in 1956 over the Grand Canyon. A Douglas DC-7 hit a Lockheed Super Constellation and crashed into a ravine slope at over 480 mph, while the Lockheed disintegrated into a cliff. All 128 people on the planes died.

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XEVDj TIL in the 1880s, the Harvard Observatory director was frustrated with his staff, and would say "My Scottish maid could do better!" So, he hired his Scottish maid. Williamina Fleming ran a team for decades, classified tens of thousands of stars, & discovered white dwarfs and the Horsehead Nebula.
x7mb TIL it is illegal in the state of Texas to own more than six dildos
OoeN6 TIL that James Cameron, the most successful director in the world, only makes Hollywood movies in order to pay for his complex explorations.
LQDpp TIL that Jeremy Renner (best known for his role as Hawkeye in the MCU) worked as a Makeup Artist early on in his career
QJ7JX TIL anthropodermic bibliopegy is the old act of binding books in human skin. An odd example was found in Harvard’s library, where a Bristol police record was bound in the very skin of a hanged murderer.