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TIL a pilot bet his co-pilot he could land their passenger jet blind, going against air traffic controls suggestion for a visual approach, the plan crashed resulting in 70 deaths and only 24 survivors.

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R58J4 TIL Christine Maggiore founded the HIV/AIDS denialism group Alive and Well. Maggiore herself then died of aids in 2008.
9wPQX TIL about the Sprint Missile. Which when shot from its launch tube accelerated at 100g and reached Mach 10 in only 5 seconds. The friction from the air was so intense it generated plasma around itself, with the capability of reaching up to 19 miles in a mere 15 seconds.
R7M9a TIL that a black woman named Eunice Foote discovered the greenhouse effect in 1856 but everyone credits Irishman John Tyndell in 1859 instead.
Mxr8 TIL In 1943, the Japanese ordered the execution of 98 American workers on Wake Island, one nameless man escaped and returned later to carve out a tombstone on the rock near the mass grave. He was caught and beheaded by the Rear Admiral himself.
XEVPX TIL Henry VIII's sixth wife, Catherine Parr, was the goddaughter of his first wife, Catherine of Aragon. Parr's mother had been an attendant of the queen.