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TIL In 1966, President Kennedy's brain disappeared from the National Archives

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R5Md8 TIL the pilots attempts to save Alaska Airlines Flight 261 on 31 January 2000 served as an inspiration for the fictionalized crash landing in the 2012 movie Flight. Flight 261 experienced a catastrophic loss of pitch control and crashed into the Pacific ocean, killing all 88 on board.
d80OZ TIL that a deep sea snail known as the Scaly-Foot Gastropod, which was only recently discovered in 2001, has a shell so well constructed that the U.S. military is researching its design, hoping to incorporate its defensive layers to improve military armor.
E1XY7 TIL Henry Hans Ernst Marwede, German pilot who fought against the Allies during WW1, was decorated with the Iron Cross, could not accept the rise of Nazism and went to France, avoided internment by joining the Foreign Legion, and sided with the Allies in WW2.
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v5Mx TIL Saturday Night Live invented the five second live TV delay because of Richard Pryor.