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TIL there was a quite a few cases of heavily insured airplane passengers blowing themselves up in the 50s/60s.

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BDBy TIL that between 1941-1944, Turkish diplomats saved thousands of Jews by issuing them Turkish passports and sometimes pulling them off trains headed for the death camps. Among these diplomats was Necdet Kent, whose son Muhtar Kent, is the current chairman and former chief executive of Coca-Cola.
G8NG TIL that before becoming an actor, Jason Statham competed in the 1990 Commonwealth Games in diving, and also sold fake jewelry to make ends meet early in his modelling career.
vPRBr TIL that the Spanish basketball team that won the 2000 special olympics were faking their disability
VB17Q TIL That Italian prisoners of war that were captured by Americans during WW2 were sent to camps in Texas and New Mexico to pick cotton
j9n TIL there was an episode of Whose Line is it Anyways where Drew Cary handed out $100 bills to the performers instead of points.