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TIL that among the victims of the Concorde plane crash in 2000 was a 53 year old schoolteacher named Klaus Frentzem, who, along with his wife, had saved up for 20 years to be able to afford tickets.

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R71A6 TIL Universal Studios Florida was only supposed to have a Studio Tour attraction ported from its Hollywood counterpart. When Disney-MGM Studios was announced in 1985, USF was switched to a full theme park by using staged encounters from Hollywood’s Studio Tour and turning them into standalone rides.
GjN5 TIL that US research shows that young adults aged between 20 and 24 and born in the 1990s were more than twice as likely to report that they had had no sexual partners since the age of 18 than young adults of the same age born in the 1960s
XE4Qk TIL that Gandhi used to sleep every night with naked teenage girls to stress test his vows of celibacy against the beguiling charms of the erotic
VMl5Q TIL that due to Bengal famine in 1770 almost 10 million people died in Bengal in 4 years eliminating 1/3rd of the population. This led to huge reduction in land Revenues of the East India Company which then influenced British to pass Tea act to reduce its troubles which led to Boston Tea Party.
DQMJp TIL from the 1970s to 1990s, the South African apartheid government conducted "Project Coast," a program where they investigated using recreational drugs, snake venom, pheromones, bacteria, viruses, heavy metals, pesticides, poisons, and more as biological weapons for both war and crowd control.