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TIL that the Hindenburg was NOT the deadliest airship disaster, the deadliest airship disaster was the USS Akron in 1933 with the loss of 73 lives out of a crew of 76.

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16vpX TIL that Kurt Waldheim was 'accidentally' elected UN Secretary-General in 1971, after the US, the UK, and China failed to coordinate their vetoes.
LQxXr TIL that Mariah Carey bought Marilyn Monroe's childhood piano for $662500 in 1999. When Marilyn's mother was institutionalized, Marilyn was sent to an orphanage and the piano was sold. It would take years of searching for Marilyn to find the piano and buy it back. Mariah wants it to go to a museum.
GYYZN TIL the prime minister of the southern song dynasty, Jia Sidao's, obsession with cricket fighting is believed to have contributed to the downfall of the empire.
XxPQ TIL scientists still don’t fully understand Triboluminescence, the phenomenon responsible for making wintergreen Life Savers glow in the dark
dP17 TIL “The Most Interesting Man in the World” almost didn’t get the part. When told they were going with someone younger, his agent wisely said “How can the most interesting man in the world be young”. He got the part.