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TIL there is a 4hr long version of Airport 77 that aired on TBS in 1978. The TBS version remains unreleased in theaters and home media to this day.

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XEowr TIL that in 2012 scientists at the Hadron Collider formed a quark-gluon plasma and subsequently recorded the hottest temperature created by man, 5.5 trillion degrees celsius.
GovG TIL that when planning the 9/11 attacks, terrorists initially wanted to target nuclear installations in the United States but decided against it fearing things would “get out of control”
OoWe1 TIL that in one egyptian myth, hathor the daughter of Ra, danced naked in front of Ra until he laughed to cure him of a fit of sulking.
av50 TIL that flamboyant pianist Liberace almost died on Nov 22, 1963 after inhaling dry cleaning fumes from his newly cleaned costumes. What saved him from death, he said, was being woken up by his entourage to the news that JFK had been assassinated
0mQj TIL that a clinical study on alcoholism that tracked 1,824 participants for 20 years revealed that heavy drinkers outlived non-drinkers, even when accounting for many other variables