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TIL John Lithgow played the William Shatner role in the Twilight Zone remake of “Nightmare at 20,000 feet.” Years later when Shatner appears on 3rd Rock from the sun he says “It was a horrible flight! There was a man on the wing of the plane!”; Lithgow responds, “The same thing happened to me!”

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gMd08 TIL about Peter Oakley, known as Geriatric1927 on youtube, he was the most subscribed youtube account in 2006, in his channel he talked about his life experiences, such as growing up in the UK during WW2 and experiencing the British inter-war school system, he passed away in 2014 at 86 years old
LZMV TIL a US army major was discharged for asking if nuclear launch could legally be ordered by an insane president. Legal scholars have since concluded that it can.
9Y6Pp TIL: a holocaust denial group offered $50k to anyone who could prove that gas chambers were used to intentionally kill people at Auschwitz. They were forced by a judge to pay the money, and an additional $40k, to Auschwitz survivor Mel Mermelstein who gave proof of that very fact.
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65Y TIL a 34 year old man once spent 41 hours trapped in an elevator in New York - “He walked onto an elevator one night, with his life in one kind of shape, and emerged from it with his life in another.”