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TIL: In the 1990s, two Boeing 737s (one in 1991 near Colorado Springs, the other in 1994 near Pittsburgh) crashed due to a design flaw that let the rudder move on its own without warning, which killed 157 in total. In 1996, a third aircraft experienced the same issue but landed safely in Richmond.

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wL80M TIL that in 1926, due to the near eradication of predators, 50 million mice flooded into Taft, CA- a 20,000 to one mouse-to-person ration. There were so many mice, that the roadkill from mice on streets made roads too slick for cars to drive on.
wJwE TIL a US Navy POW blinked the word ‘torture’ in morse code during a forced TV interview in North Vietnam to signal his conditions to the Office of Naval Intelligence
ADQM7 TIL of Rick Rescorla, director of security for Morgan Stanley and tenant of the World Trade Center south tower, helped to evacuate all but 13, including himself, of the company's 2,687 employees before the tower's collapse.
oBeJL TIL No cases of strangers hurting children by hiding poisons or sharp objects in candy have been proven. However, in rare cases, family members have used the story to try to cover up murder or accidental deaths. Also, some children have copycatted it and then pretended it was the work of a stranger.
oRVa7 TIL that a Physics paper called “Two-, Three-, and Four-Atom Exchange Effects in bcc3 He” was co-authored by F.D.C. Willard - a Siamese cat named Chester.