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TIL that the first ever manned flight into a hurricane was done in a single engined plane by Joseph Duckworth on a bet in 1943

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8a5VK TIL there are more Americans living in Vancouver, BC than there are in Vancouver, WA
KOVe9 TIL in 1972 David Duke was charged with stealing campaign funds he had raised for presidential candidate George Wallace. He was also charged with filling glass containers with a flammable liquid, banned under a New Orleans ordinance. Both charges were eventually dropped.
Zp4bD TIL that Otto Warmbier was an American college student who was imprisoned in North Korea in 2016 on a charge of subversion. In June 2017, he was released by North Korea in a vegetative state and died soon afterward. His family was awarded $240k in seized North Korean assets.
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