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TIL in 1987, a passenger hijacked a plane from LAX to SFO. The flight attendant alerted the pilot, "We have a problem!". The pilot asked "What kind of problem?" The hijacker then shot the flight attendant dead & announced "I'm the problem", before killing both pilots and crashing the plane

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polA TIL tech companies often test new products in New Zealand because they’re an ethnically diverse, tech-savvy, and English-speaking nation, yet still relatively isolated. If a product is a flop there, news is unlikely to spread quickly to the rest of the world and damage a company’s reputation.
BP4d TIL in December 1939, a ten year old Martin Luther King Jr. was dressed as a slave and sang in a boy’s choir at the premiere of the film “Gone With the Wind.” Two black actresses in the film were prevented from attending the premiere due to segregation laws.
9YlWm TIL There are experiments to determine if medias are biased, however, conservative experimenters tend to get results showing that the Media has Liberal bias while Liberal experimenters tend to get results indicating that the media has conservative bias.
69WGZ TIL that Luc Havan, the nightclub employee who killed jazz bassist Jaco Pastorius in 1987, was sentenced to twenty-two months in prison and five years' probation, but only served four months in prison due to good behaviour.
Wko0A TIL: Jim Lovell, a carrier-based pilot facing instrument failure, used the luminescent wake of the aircraft carrier to locate the ship. He would later command the Apollo 13 mission.