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TIL young eggplants look like eggs, which is where they got their name

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xV8OB TIL in 1960 a Russian man with a bomb tried to hijack Trans Australia Airlines Flight 408. The co-pilot punched him in the face and ripped the wires off the bomb saving everyone on board.
Eg9MW TIL Jerome Jacobson led a fraud scheme during the McDonald's Monopoly Game in the late 1990s and early 2000s. He worked for Simon Marketing, the company who distributed the pieces, and generated millions in illegal profits. The FBI caught the perpetrators during an operation called "Final Answer."
p8RWe TIL about "Black Sunday", Disneyland's disastrous opening day. Asphalt poured that morning melted in the 101 °F weather, counterfeit tickets added 3x the park's capacity, a plumbers' strike forced Walt to choose running toilets over water fountains, vendors ran out of food, rides were hijacked, etc.
wogO7 TIL that, on average, we each have about 0.2mg of gold in our body.
Apbx TIL that in 1962 the CIA tipped off South Africa’s intelligence service about the location of Nelson Mandela, leading to his arrest that put him in jail for 27 years