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TIL that following an Asiana airline crash in 2012, a summer intern working at the NTSB "confirmed" the names of the flight crew to a local TV news station as Sum Ting Wong, Wi Tu Lo, Ho Lee Fuk, and Bang Ding Ow. The intern and 3 producers from the station were later fired

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KOE5J TIL in 2016, "a boy was killed and 20 others infected by anthrax released when retreating permafrost exposed the frozen carcass of a reindeer killed by the bacteria at least 75 years earlier; 2,000 present-day reindeer were infected, too, carrying and spreading the disease further."
7jOx TIL for Donald Ducks’s 50th birthday, Walt Disney World hatched 50 Peking ducks in front of Donald Duck, so they would think he is their “mother” and follow him around for a birthday celebration parade.
wo0JY TIL that Elton John never performed the Princess Diana version of Candle in the Wind again after her funeral in 1997, despite receiving numerous requests.
KOx5a TIL Evelyn Einstein, the granddaughter of Albert, was married to an anthropology professor who tried to prove the existence of Bigfoot. When Einstein attended Berkley in the 60s, she felt anxious because she couldn't tell whether men were interested in her because of her or her name
AN6yl TIL about the West Point Spiked Eggnog Riot of 1826, when cadets, including future Confederate President Jefferson Davis, went on a wild bender after sneaking booze into the academy. Captain Hitchcock tried to regain control but was attacked, and nearly shot, while a drunk drum corps played outside