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TIL in 2018 a helicopter for sightseers of NYC crashed into the East River. All 5 passengers drowned because they were trapped by their supplemental harnesses, but the pilot escaped

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4kBLo TIL There is a Bollywood remake of Forrest Gump titled "Laal Singh Chaddha"
kOxWg TIL WWII Submarine Captain John Philip Cromwell stoically went down with his stricken sub Sculpin rather than allow himself to be captured by the Japanese. Cpt Cromwell had knowledge of top secret highly sensitive Allied war plans that the enemy may have extracted from him through drugs or torture,
9VZr TIL a video game based off the TV show ‘The Office" was made. It wasn’t a big success (gameplay video in comments).
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