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TIL Ho Chi Minh quoted the Declaration of Independence when he declared Vietnam’s independence from France

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e0oan TIL about Rick Parker, a corrupt boxing promoter who poisoned his fighter's opponent when he refused to throw a fight. The opponent, Tim Anderson, survived and murdered Parker. Anderson is now serving life in prison.
ANYRw TIL there is a movement to recover and preserve “heritage apples,” those forgotten once commercial growers settled on a few varieties to mass grow. Over a thousand have been found so far.
4XYJR Fifty years ago today, air stewardess Vesna Vulovic plunged more than 33,000 feet from an exploding airliner, landed in a Czechoslovak mountain range, and survived. Subsequently, it was determined that Vulovic’s fall was the highest that a human has ever sustained without a parachute.
a8A9M TIL that the Avrocar was a real life flying saucer, developed by Avro Canada for the US Air Force to be used as a flying jeep
7jkP TIL Roald Dahl was buried with his snooker cues, some very good burgundy, chocolates, HB pencils and a power saw.