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TIL that in 1994 75 people died in a plane crash, because the pilot let his 16-year-old son sit at the controls of a Airbus A310

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N7OZ6 TIL that despite being the only predominantly Catholic nation in Asia, President McKinley, unaware said that American occupation of the Philippines was necessary to "uplift and Christianize" the Filipinos.
NXb7M TIL of Jean-Simon Bibeau, the longest portrayer of any mascot in any professional sport. He portrayed Youppi! for the Montreal Expos from 1988-1990 and the Montreal Canadiens from 2003 to the present day
NXvQ TIL Eric D. Wilkinson, the producer of “The Man from Earth”, thanked the users of BitTorrent for distributing the movie because this way it got way more popular than expected
9YO47 TIL about Thomas Rowlandson, a popular erotic artist in the 19th century whose work was heavily censored during the Victorian Era. He died at the age of 69.
LQ640 TIL that tennis shoes were originally made for the British Navy when on their slippery decks. When the shoes came into the market in 1892, they were known as plimsolls. The shoes were then given the name sneakers because they had no sound when walking