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TIL that two students were arrested in 1972 for a plan to poison Chicago’s water supply with typhoid, anthrax, and various other pathogens. Released on bond, they hijacked a plane and forced it to go to Cuba; one died in prison and the other eventually made it home, getting five years of probation.

Y7aMr TIL Runaway Train by Soul Asylum actually found 21 of the 36 missing kids mentioned in the song.
aRMM TIL Run is the English word with the most definitions
4YOg TIL your state’s highest paid public employee is probably a football coach
5VrjP TIL the song Harper Valley PTA (1968) became a movie (1978) and a TV show (1981). Has this happened before or since with a single song?
wLa87 TIL thirty Indonesian women colonized Madagascar over one thousand years ago