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TIL that 3 people died while in a flight simulator in a flight safety building, due to a plane crashing into it.

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6EMEX TIL that when Lumber Baron William E Boeing created the Boeing Airplane Company in 1917 the company depended on designs from their first aeronautical engineer hire, Chinese MIT grad Wong Tsu. He worked for a year with the company before returning to China. He fled to Taiwan when Mao took over China
D0PP TIL Between 1950 and 1965 the US Miltary lost a total of 10 nuclear weapons, primarily in the ocean, which are still missing.
Bn9r TIL that Ryan White, an HIV/AIDS spokesman in the 80s, was expelled from middle school after contracting HIV from an infected blood transfusion. 117 parents and 50 teachers campaigned for his ban, after being told that the students would catch HIV if they were in the same class as he was.
YoOP TIL Winston Churchill was prescribed alcohol to get around American Prohibition
E1aBo TIL Jeff Bridges wears the same t-shirt in 3 different movies, Cold feet, The fisher King, and The big Lebowski. The shirt is a pic of Japanese Professional Baseball Player, Kaoru Betto, who was the recipient of the first Pacific League MVP.