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TIL in August 2001 actor James Woods reported 4 suspicious individuals on his flight. Authorities did not act on his claim and they later turned out to be the 9/11 hijackers.

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BQYL TIL The price of a single bottle of Coca-Cola remained mostly unchanged from 1886 to 1959.
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VbKB TIL FOX News fell for a “ruse alleging purchase of $1 billion of jetpacks for LAPD, Fire Department” from the Weekly World News satirical news tabloid in 2010.
E19WV TIL Russian scientist Anatoli Bugorski was working on the Synchrotron U-70, the largest Soviet particle accelerator in 1978. A proton beam measuring about 200,000 rads entered his skull, and 300,000 rads when it exited. Due to nerve destruction, the left half of his face was frozen and doesn’t age.
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