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TIL there have been 34 prison escapes using helicopters (and another 14 failed attempts). The record holder is French criminal Pascal Payet, who has escaped prison by helicopter three times.

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QKva We get it. OJ was considered for the part of the Terminator and planes have crashed (or been shot down) over the years.
ADKew TIL Freddie Blassie, a heel wrestler in the 60's, claimed to have caused heart attacks among tv viewers in Japan due to his gimmick of biting his opponents and drawing blood. Blassie boasted "In my whole career, 92 people dropped dead of heart attacks. My ambition was to kill 100, and I failed,”
m1lVx TIL Commodus once held a grand 14 day gladiatorial event with himself as the center piece. The "highlights" include him killing 100 bears in a day. The crowd was hesitant to attend the arena due to a rumour that he would start shooting random spectators in reenactment of the stymphalian birds myth
8e1v8 TIL: Laura Callahan was the CIO of the Department of Labor and then Homeland Security with bachelors, masters, and doctoral degrees purchased at a diploma mill. Coworkers complained she used strange technical jargon and belittled them. She was caught, but was not charged with a crime.
bY0j TIL that Antonio Banderas provided the voice for the main character in the English, Italian, Latin American Spanish, Castilian Spanish and Catalan versions of the movie Puss in Boots.