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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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W7pVA Til if you press the blue time stamps in YouTube comments it will take you to the exact moment of the video.
LQOVV TIL: Some Japanese families without a son will adopt a Mukoyōshi or adopted son-in-law. They marry a daughter, run the family business, and take their wives surname. Nintendo, Kikkoman, and Toyota, are owned by families that have adopted this practice.
nWejB TIL in school I read about Nellie Bly, a female journalist in the late 1800s who got herself committed to an insane asylum to report on the conditions. She also once jumped off a ferry so she could report on the efficiency of the rescue crew!
d87b7 TIL Article V of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty requires nuclear powers to sell nuclear bombs to non-nuclear powers if they are determined to be for peaceful explosive purposes by an international body.
e00JJ TIL that during the summer of 1968 during which philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre was arrested for civil disobedience, President Charles de Gaulle intervened and pardoned him, commenting that "you don't arrest Voltaire".