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TIL that in 2003, two men stole a Boeing 727 from an international airport in Angola. Neither man was qualified to fly the plane. No trace of the men or the plane has ever been found.

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VRd8 TIL that the term “hipster” originated in the 1940s, and was used to describe jazz afficionados, characterized by their “dress, slang, use of cannabis and other drugs, relaxed attitude, sarcastic humor, self-imposed poverty and relaxed sexual codes.”
WjMB TIL Oil is cheaper than water in Venezuela.
l79Q1 TIL A Crossair flight crashed in Switzerland causing 24 deaths due to pilot error. The same pilot previously overflew a destination in Switzerland to Italy and only realized it when a passenger could see road signs in Italian.
GYJV7 TIL that the song “Lift Yourself” by Kanye West was made specifically to piss off Drake. Drake had been planning to use the “Lift Yourself” beat for his song, but Kanye didn’t give him enough time before releasing his own nonsensical version.
AN7Ad TIL: Crab Rangoons aren't related to Chinese cuisine, and were instead invented in an American Tiki bar by someone trying to give a new appatizer a suitably Asian sounding name, and then re-appropriated by Chinese-American restaurateurs as a staple appetizer.