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TIL that when the host of "Candid Camera" Allen Funt was on a flight that was highjacked, passengers recognized him and thought the it was all just a joke for the show. Despite his insistence that the hijacking was real, no one believed him until the plane landed in Cuba.

yVo18 Til that in the USA there are specific rules of how to dispose of a worn-out flag
LkP10 Today i learned about this.
VM8G TIL you could crawl through the arteries in a blue whales heart
W7MoL TIL that Nikola Tesla tried to sell several governments on a "death ray" that would destroy armies and planes from 200 miles away
QWMd TIL Jimmy Carter, the 39th US President, was the first president to be born in a hospital