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TIL About Lt. General Charles "Chuck" Pitman who in 1973 personally commandeered a Marine Corps CH-46 Sea Knight to stop a mass shooter who was perched on the top of a hotel and had killed several civilians and officers after seeing it on the news

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BggYk TIL that the german city Wolfsburg was entirely built for the workers of the volkswagen car factory, one of the largest factories in the world, at just under 6.5 million m² (70 million sq ft.) the roofs of the factory combined are bigger than monaco
Y7gGx TIL Beethoven’s 3rd Symphony was initially his tribute to Napoleon, whom he admired. But when Napoleon crowned himself emperor in 1804, Beethoven angrily declared that Napoleon had become a tyrant, and he erased Bonaparte's name from the score’s title page.
vAN7 TIL That Microsoft once had to rename the “Critical Update Notification Tool” in order to avoid the unfortunate acronym
Ypmvd TIL that Mario Puzo, the author of the Godfather books who’d also adapted them to film, had no idea what he was doing as he’d never written a screenplay before. After winning two Oscars, he decided to buy a book on screenwriting to learn how. In the first chapter, it said “Study Godfather I”.
v1o8j TIL that "second" (after first) is the same word as "second" (a 60th of a minute), because we get a minute from dividing the hour by 60, and then we divide it a second time.