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TIL in 2016 a hijacked plane was forced to land at an airport during the filming of a movie about a plane hijacking. The real footage was then used in the movie

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ne8VW TIL a metastudy in 2017 with over 10k participants found that daily vitamin D doses reduced the chance of contracting respiratory infections by 19%
0wn65 TIL the lyricist for the theme song of the 1967 Spider-Man cartoon (Spider-Man! Spider-Man! Does whatever a spider can!) won three Academy Awards for Best Original Song and was nominated sixteen times for the award.
gMd08 TIL about Peter Oakley, known as Geriatric1927 on youtube, he was the most subscribed youtube account in 2006, in his channel he talked about his life experiences, such as growing up in the UK during WW2 and experiencing the British inter-war school system, he passed away in 2014 at 86 years old
BrEKK TIL that the company Zildjian, one of "The Big Four" major cymbal manufacturers in the world, was founded in the Ottoman Empire in 1623, by the alchemist Avedis Zildjian.
K7AQ TIL there are 2 stoplights in the entire US Interstate System. One at the Holland Tunnel in New Jersey, and one in Breezewood, PA