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TIL All new FBI agents are required to visit the Holocaust Memorial Museum

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Me9JV TIL about "the miracle" Olympic Airways Flight 411, when the aircraft lost an engine and critical engine power, but the pilot was able to successfully land it. All following Boeing simulations show that the plane should have crashed; it's still listed as Lost.
6oom TIL: Lollipops are distributed outside nightclubs to reduce late night rowdiness as revellers will not be able to shout or cause a disturbance while sucking on them.
BXwK TIL There is a virus that can permanently kill cancer cells by infecting them
b6kaE TIL John Hinckley Jr. the guy who shot President Ronald Reagan along w/ three others during a assassination attempt in 1981 is now a Youtuber and musician.
WkLwN TIL that the chemical chlorine trifluoride, is so flammable it can set virtually anything on fire. In the 1950's, a 1 TON spill of this chemical burned through a foot of concrete, another 3 feet of sand and gravel beneath that, with a side of deadly clouds of corrosive hydrofluoric acid gas.