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TIL The survival rate in plane crashes is 95.7 percent!

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QNRoM TIL that in 1967 during the Vietnam War, US Gunnery Sergeant Carlos Hathcock strapped a scope to a 50-caliber machine gun, using it like a rifle. He made a number of kills with this weapon in excess of 1,000 yards, including his record for the longest confirmed kill at 2,500 yards.
nekNW TIL a group gamers sent a port of Super Mario Brothers 3 to Nintendo in hopes of securing a license. Impressed, but uninterested, Nintendo declined but the gamers were so impressed by their work they went on to create their own studio, id Software, which developed Wolfenstein, Quake, and Doom.
Bxmy TIL Michael Jackson’s father, talent mogul Joe Jackson, attempted to use the press conference marking his son’s death to promote his new hip hop recording project
wLvw6 TIL an off duty border patrol agent started an Arizona wildfire by shooting a crate of explosives in dry grass. The gender reveal party started a wildfire that consumed 47,000 acres and cost 8.2million USD to put out.
GkBg TIL Ron L. Hubbard awarded himself his PhD because he owned the university from which he graduated.